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Llantrithyd Camp
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Atlas WA1624
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1624 (1624)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llancarfan
- National Grid reference
- ST03867318
- Latitude
- 51.44937
- Longitude
- -3.38494
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1967); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00346s
- National record
- record ST 07 SW 22; monument 301300
- Wikidata
- Q31119308
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1976: Glamorgan Inventory 1.2, No. 682.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, 682, Cardiff: HMSO.