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Carn Caca
Neath Port Talbot, Wales ยท Atlas WA1796
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1796 (1796)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clyne and Melincourt
- National Grid reference
- SN831005
- Latitude
- 51.69176
- Longitude
- -3.69149
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Other (1962); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM366
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00564w
- National record
- record SN 80 SW; monument 301306
- Wikidata
- Q31118879
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. 618, Cardiff: HMSO.