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Pen Twyn, Llanfihangel Crucorney
Monmouth, Wales ยท Atlas WA2433
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2433 (2433)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crucorney
- National Grid reference
- SO32112303
- Latitude
- 51.90162
- Longitude
- -2.98818
- Altitude
- 332 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and berm
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east); Other Forms (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM064
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 01607g
- National record
- record SO 32 SW 6; monument 94878
- Wikidata
- Q31096361
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.