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Bonvilston Gaer
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales ยท Atlas WA1626
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1626 (1626)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Nicholas and Bonvilston
- National Grid reference
- ST06357473
- Latitude
- 51.46372
- Longitude
- -3.34953
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.2 ha, 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1813); Other (1878); Other (1963); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM079
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 358
- National record
- record ST 07 SE; monument 301299
- Wikidata
- Q31119366
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, 696, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board of Celtic Stud, 13, 158.