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Piercefield Little Camp
Monmouth, Wales ยท Atlas WA2417
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2417 (2417)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Arvans
- National Grid reference
- ST53259572
- Latitude
- 51.65827
- Longitude
- -2.67726
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.72 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- south and level
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881-1887)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM020A
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00773g
- National record
- record ST 59 NW 35; monument 307997
- Wikidata
- Q31096291
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, 235.