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Ysgyryd (Skirrid) Fawr
Monmouth, Wales ยท Atlas WA2432
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2432 (2432)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llantilio Pertholey
- National Grid reference
- SO33111827
- Latitude
- 51.85895
- Longitude
- -2.97273
- Altitude
- 486 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1991); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM182
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 01497g
- National record
- record SO 31 NW
- Wikidata
- Q31096427
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 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales and Monmouthshire. Additions and corrections to Sections I-III, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 15 (1952-54), 229.