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Caerau Camp, Ponthir
Monmouth, Wales ยท Atlas WA2399
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2399 (2399)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanhennock
- National Grid reference
- ST32989344
- Latitude
- 51.63571
- Longitude
- -2.96982
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM135
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00645g
- National record
- record ST 39 SW 28; monument 220952
- Wikidata
- Q31096270
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.
- Savory, H.N. 1950. List of hill-fort and other earthworks in Wales, II. Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 235.