Home / Wales / Cardiff / Llwynda'-Ddu
Llwynda'-Ddu
Cardiff, Wales ยท Atlas WA2405
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2405 (2405)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pentyrch
- National Grid reference
- ST10858100
- Latitude
- 51.52081
- Longitude
- -3.28635
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1964); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM180
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00713m
- National record
- record ST 18 SW; monument 94599
- Wikidata
- Q31118034
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, No 684.RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, Vol I: Pre-Norman, Part II The Iron Age and the Roman occupation, No. 684, Cardiff: HMSO.