Location
- Atlas number
- WA1629 (1629)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llancarfan
- National Grid reference
- ST 054 734
- Latitude
- 51.45161
- Longitude
- -3.36285
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
- Water source
- spring and stream
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1320); Other (1578); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1967); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM298A
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00359s
- National record
- record ST 07 SE 2; monument 301307
- Wikidata
- Q31119380
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, 638, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 100.