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Great House Camp
Monmouth, Wales ยท Atlas WA2423
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2423 (2423)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangwm
- National Grid reference
- SO4322403341
- Latitude
- 51.72586
- Longitude
- -2.82343
- Altitude
- 104 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 0, SW 0, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.56 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1991); Other (2005); Geophysical Survey (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM105
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00942g
- National record
- record SO 40 SW 23; monument 306492
- Wikidata
- Q31096304
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, 234.