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Graig Fawr, Pontardulais
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA1622
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1622 (1622)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pontardulais
- National Grid reference
- SN61830685
- Latitude
- 51.74323
- Longitude
- -4.00272
- Altitude
- 276 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1961); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00345w
- National record
- record SN 60 NW 6; monument 105746
- Wikidata
- Q31055330
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, 616, Cardiff: HMSO.