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Mynydd y Gaer
Bridgend, Wales ยท Atlas WA1637
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1637 (1637)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coychurch Higher
- National Grid reference
- SS97358495
- Latitude
- 51.55402
- Longitude
- -3.48202
- Altitude
- 225 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM084
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00383m
- National record
- record SS 98 SE
- Wikidata
- Q31118829
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.