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Castle Ditches, Llancarfan
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Atlas WA1638
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1638 (1638)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llancarfan
- National Grid reference
- ST05907002
- Latitude
- 51.42130
- Longitude
- -3.35475
- Altitude
- 61 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
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Other Forms (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (2005); Excavation (1963-1964); Other (1964-1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM071
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00383s
- National record
- record ST 07 SE; monument 93040
- Wikidata
- Q31119390
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.
- Hogg, A.H.A., 1976. Castle Ditches, Llancarfan (Glamorgan), Arch Camb, 125, 13-39.
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, 1.2, Pre-Norman, Parts I-III, 615, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 154;
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, 31, London: HMSO, 31.