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Pen y Castell, Cwmafan
Neath Port Talbot, Wales ยท Atlas WA2402
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2402 (2402)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cwmavon
- National Grid reference
- SS78859174
- Latitude
- 51.61137
- Longitude
- -3.75108
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and berm
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1964); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877-1878)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM098
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00678w
- National record
- record SS 79 SE 25; monument 307232
- Wikidata
- Q31118899
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. 679, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 155.