Location
- Atlas number
- WA2406 (2406)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Arvans
- National Grid reference
- ST51709796
- Latitude
- 51.67827
- Longitude
- -2.69998
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.57 ha, 4.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North east)
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 (1881); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM025
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00745g
- National record
- record ST 59 NW 6; monument 307991
- Wikidata
- Q31096407
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.