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Mynydd-y-Castell Camp, Margam
Neath Port Talbot, Wales ยท Atlas WA2409
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2409 (2409)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Margam
- National Grid reference
- SS80618655
- Latitude
- 51.56510
- Longitude
- -3.72391
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); Oblique (North east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (1967); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM162
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00756w
- National record
- record SS 88 NW 20; monument 301336
- Wikidata
- Q31118926
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. 613, Cardiff: HMSO.