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Glyn-Neath

Neath Port Talbot, Wales ยท Atlas WA1795

Location

Atlas number
WA1795 (1795)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Neath Port Talbot
Historic county
Glamorgan
Parish, community, or townland
Glynneath
National Grid reference
SN8850006850
Latitude
51.74917
Longitude
-3.61661
Altitude
75 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant and Likely destroyed
Morphology
partial univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
0.1 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and counterscarp bank
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
knoll or outcrop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and built-up land

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Other (1963); Other (2005)

Identifiers

HER
Glamorgan Gwent 00551w
National record
record SN 80 NE
Wikidata
Q31118848

Sources

References

  1. 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.
  2. RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, Vol I: Pre-Norman, Part II The Iron Age and the Roman occupation, No. 617, Cardiff: HMSO.