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Sudbrook Camp
Monmouth, Wales · Atlas WA2429
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2429 (2429)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Portskewett
- National Grid reference
- ST50558732
- Latitude
- 51.58251
- Longitude
- -2.71510
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.37 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery and metalworking
- Investigations
- Excavation (1939); Other (1991); Other (2000); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882-1887); Excavation (1998-1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM048
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 01142g
- National record
- record ST 58 NW; monument 94873
- Wikidata
- Q31096341
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A 1965. Early Iron Age, In Foster, I.LL and Daniel, G. (eds) Prehistoric and Early Wales, 145, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
- Nash-Williams, V.E. 1939. An early Iron Age coastal camp at Sudbrook, near the Severn tunnel, Monmouthshire, Arch Camb, 94 (1939) 42-79.
- Savory, H.N. 1950. List of hill-fort and other earthworks in Wales, II. Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 233.
- Sell, S.H. 2001. Recent excavation and survey work at Sudbrook Camo, Portskewett, Monmouthshire (ST507837), Studia Celtica, 35(2001), 109-141.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, 49, London: HMSO, 49.