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Willoxton Cwm
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1606
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1606 (1606)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ilston
- National Grid reference
- SS54888921
- Latitude
- 51.58297
- Longitude
- -4.09599
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Excavation (1998); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00303w
- National record
- record SS 58 NW; monument 86927
- Wikidata
- Q31055239
Sources
References
- Gerrard, C., Wiggins, H., and Evans, E. 2006. Prehistoric defended enclosures in Glamorgan with recommendations for fieldwork: Year 3 Report, GGAT Report No 2006/089, Project No GGAT78, Swansea: GGAT.