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Fort At Craig Ty Isaf
Neath Port Talbot, Wales ยท Atlas WA2401
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2401 (2401)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Baglan
- National Grid reference
- SS75659338
- Latitude
- 51.62541
- Longitude
- -3.79786
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1919); Other (1964); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM263
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00652w
- National record
- record SS 79 SE 4; monument 301313
- Wikidata
- Q31118891
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. 678, Cardiff: HMSO.