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Castle Field Camp, Graig-Llwyn
Cardiff, Wales ยท Atlas WA2398
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2398 (2398)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pontprennau
- National Grid reference
- ST20458403
- Latitude
- 51.54948
- Longitude
- -3.14870
- Altitude
- 99 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1967); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM066
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00627s
- National record
- record ST 28 SW 20; monument 301309
- Wikidata
- Q31118032
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. 685, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 155.