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The Larches Camp
Monmouth, Wales ยท Atlas WA1792
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1792 (1792)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caerwent
- National Grid reference
- ST43298996
- Latitude
- 51.60556
- Longitude
- -2.82030
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Footprint
- 1.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1882)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM069
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00473g
- National record
- record ST 48 NW 17; monument 307950
- Wikidata
- Q31096265
Sources
References
- Savory, H.N. 1950. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, II. Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 235.