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Llanmelin Wood Camp and Llanmelin Outpost, Caerwent
Monmouth, Wales · Atlas WA2426
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2426 (2426)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Shirenewton
- National Grid reference
- ST46109257
- Latitude
- 51.62930
- Longitude
- -2.78013
- Altitude
- 104 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (1991); Other (2005); Excavation (2013); Excavation (1930-1932)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM024
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 01026g
- National record
- record ST 49 SE 1; monument 301559; 307960
- Wikidata
- Q31096417
Sources
References
- Anon. 2013. Llanmelin: Iron Age community research. Current Archaeol, 277, 10.
- Forde-Johnston, J. 1976. Hillforts of the Iron Age in England and Wales, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
- Nash-Williams, V.E. 1933. An early Iron Age hill-fort at Llanmelin, near Caerwent, Monmouthshire, Arc Camb, 88 (1933) 237-315.
- Savory, H.N. 1950. List of hill-fort and other earthworks in Wales, II. Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 233.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 48-9.