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Gwersyll
Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales ยท Atlas WA1793
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1793 (1793)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aberdare
- National Grid reference
- SO02700403
- Latitude
- 51.72647
- Longitude
- -3.41019
- Altitude
- 420 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1868); Other (1960); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM239
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00483m
- National record
- record SO 00 SW 3; monument 305673
- Wikidata
- Q31119104
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, Vol I: Pre-Norman, Part II The Iron Age and the Roman occupation, No. 619, Cardiff: HMSO.