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Gaer Fawr Camp, Llangwm
Monmouth, Wales ยท Atlas WA2428
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2428 (2428)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangwm
- National Grid reference
- ST44149881
- Latitude
- 51.68521
- Longitude
- -2.80945
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 6.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (1991); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM062
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 01131g
- National record
- record ST 49 NW 19; monument 300081
- Wikidata
- Q31096331
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.
- Howell, R. 2006: Searching for the Silures. An Iron Age tribe in south-east Wales, Stroud: Tempus.
- Savory, H.N. 1950. List of hill-fort and other earthworks in Wales, II. Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 233.