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Craig Ruperra
Caerphilly, Wales ยท Atlas WA2434
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2434 (2434)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rudry
- National Grid reference
- ST223867
- Latitude
- 51.57375
- Longitude
- -3.12262
- Altitude
- 182 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM511A
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 01672m
- National record
- record ST 28 NW 27; monument 226513
- Wikidata
- Q31118839
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.