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Caerau, Llantrisant
Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales ยท Atlas WA1804
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1804 (1804)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llantrisant
- National Grid reference
- ST06458320
- Latitude
- 51.53987
- Longitude
- -3.35034
- Altitude
- 167 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1965); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874-1875)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM065
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00619m
- National record
- record ST 08 SE 1; monument 93037
- Wikidata
- Q31119081
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. 672, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 154.