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Cwm Bach, Wick
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales ยท Atlas WA1617
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1617 (1617)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wick
- National Grid reference
- SS898714
- Latitude
- 51.43133
- Longitude
- -3.58606
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (1961); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM186
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00336m
- National record
- record SS 87 SE
- Wikidata
- Q31119354
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, 631, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board of Celtic Stud, 13, 156.