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The Bulwarks Camp, Porthkerry
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Atlas WA1794
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1794 (1794)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rhoose
- National Grid reference
- ST08206630
- Latitude
- 51.38824
- Longitude
- -3.32072
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Oblique (West); Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1935); Other (1966); Excavation (1968); Other (2005); Geophysical Survey (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM029
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00523s
- National record
- record ST 06 NE; monument 93015
- Wikidata
- Q31119417
Sources
References
- Davies, J.L 1973. An excavation at the Bulwarks, Porthkerry, Gl;amorgan, Arch Camb, 122, 85-98.
- 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. 671, 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, London: HMSO, 41.
- Gardner, W. 1935. The Bulwarks: a promontory fort at Porthkerry, Glamorgan , Arch Camb, 90 (1935), 135-40.