Location
- Atlas number
- WA2412 (2412)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Arvans
- National Grid reference
- ST53639596
- Latitude
- 51.66045
- Longitude
- -2.67180
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and berm
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Passage-way/Corridor (South); Recesses/Guard Chambers (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881-1882)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM020B
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00772g
- National record
- record ST 59 NW; monument 307998
- Wikidata
- Q31096277
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.
- Savory, H.N. 1950. List of hill-fort and other earthworks in Wales, II. Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 233.