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Redley Cliff Camp
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1612
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1612 (1612)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bishopston
- National Grid reference
- SS58808756
- Latitude
- 51.56914
- Longitude
- -4.03878
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1959); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 0313w
- National record
- record SS 58 NE; monument 305585
- Wikidata
- Q31055306
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, 703, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 156.