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High Pennard
Swansea, Wales · Atlas WA1608
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1608 (1608)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pennard
- National Grid reference
- SS56778663
- Latitude
- 51.56027
- Longitude
- -4.06768
- Altitude
- 89 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
- Water source
- well or cistern
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, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Excavation (1939); Other (1965); Other (1986); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM045
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00312w
- National record
- record SS 58 NE; monument 94532
- Wikidata
- Q31055583
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, 702, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949.List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 156.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 52-3.
- Williams, A. 1941. The excavation of High Pennard promontory fort, Glamorgan, Arch Camb, 96 (1941), 23-30.