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Gaer Fawr Lower Camp, Mynydd y Gaer
Neath Port Talbot, Wales ยท Atlas WA2400
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2400 (2400)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Briton Ferry
- National Grid reference
- SS76579425
- Latitude
- 51.63343
- Longitude
- -3.78488
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 6
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 6, SW 4, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 3.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 3.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Oblique (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1918); Other (1964); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM055
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00651w
- National record
- record SS 79 SE 32; monument 301316
- Wikidata
- Q31118865
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. 690, Cardiff: HMSO.