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Wenallt Camp
Cardiff, Wales ยท Atlas WA1801
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1801 (1801)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rhiwbina
- National Grid reference
- ST15228276
- Latitude
- 51.53731
- Longitude
- -3.22381
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (1967); Other (2001); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM097
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00604s
- National record
- record ST 18 SE 3; monument 307793
- Wikidata
- Q31118031
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. 663, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 160.