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Castell Morlais
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales ยท Atlas WA2422
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2422 (2422)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pant
- National Grid reference
- SO05000950
- Latitude
- 51.77604
- Longitude
- -3.37840
- Altitude
- 380 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1965); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875-1887)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM028
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00831m
- National record
- record SO 00 NE; monument 93014
- Wikidata
- Q31118103
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. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, Vol I: Pre-Norman, Part II The Iron Age and the Roman occupation, No. 611, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Whittle E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 141-42.