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Nash Point Camp
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales ยท Atlas WA1647
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1647 (1647)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Donats
- National Grid reference
- SS91486848
- Latitude
- 51.40488
- Longitude
- -3.56159
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 0, SW 0, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Other Forms (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1965); Other (2005); Geophysical Survey (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM033
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00400s
- National record
- record SS 96 NW 3; monument 300160
- Wikidata
- Q31119409
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, 667, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 156.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales, Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 38-9.