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Cefn yr Argoed
Neath Port Talbot, Wales ยท Atlas WA2404
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2404 (2404)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glyncorrwg
- National Grid reference
- SS83219405
- Latitude
- 51.63306
- Longitude
- -3.68886
- Altitude
- 300 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); In-turned (North east); Hollow Way (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (1964); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM245
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00709w
- National record
- record SS 89 SW 8; monument 301310
- Wikidata
- Q31118950
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. 659, Cardiff: HMSO.