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Llanquian Wood
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales ยท Atlas WA1615
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1615 (1615)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cowbridge With Llanblethian
- National Grid reference
- ST02147446
- Latitude
- 51.46058
- Longitude
- -3.41004
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 8
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1 ha, 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west); Hollow Way (South west); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1963); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM182
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00327s
- National record
- record ST 07 SW 2; monument 301328
- Wikidata
- Q31119332
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, 695, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board of Celtic Stud, 13, 158.