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Bishopston Valley Camp
Swansea, Wales · Atlas WA1607
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1607 (1607)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bishopston
- National Grid reference
- SS56938780
- Latitude
- 51.57082
- Longitude
- -4.06585
- Altitude
- 31 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); Oblique (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and ridge
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Excavation (1939); Other (1965); Other (1986); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM126
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00309w
- National record
- record SS 58 NE; monument 301340
- Wikidata
- Q31055564
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.
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, 1.2, Pre-Norman, Parts I-III, 677, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 157.
- Williams, A. 1940. Excavations at Bishopston Valley promontory fort, Glamorgan, Arch Camb, 95, 9-19.