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Blackfield Wood Camp
Monmouth, Wales ยท Atlas WA2408
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2408 (2408)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tintern
- National Grid reference
- ST52909899
- Latitude
- 51.68764
- Longitude
- -2.68276
- Altitude
- 186.9 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.46 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM027
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00748g
- National record
- record ST 59 NW
- Wikidata
- Q31096272
Sources
References
- Eden 2000. Results of a Soil Survey of an Enclosure in Blackcliff Wood, Tintern, Monmouthshire, Unpublished thesis, Bristol University.
- 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.