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Twyn y Gaer, Llanfihangel Crucorney
Monmouth, Wales · Atlas WA2435
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2435 (2435)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Monmouth
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crucorney
- National Grid reference
- SO29402195
- Latitude
- 51.89157
- Longitude
- -3.02734
- Altitude
- 426 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- wall-walk
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- metalworking and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1982); Other (2005); Excavation (1965-1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MM148
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 01713g
- National record
- record SO 22 SE; monument 300043
- Wikidata
- Q31096372
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.
- Probert, A. 1976. Twyn-y-Gaer hill-fort, Gwent: an interim assessment, in Boon, G.C. and Lewis, J.M. (eds.), Welsh antiquity, essays presented to Dr H.N. Savory, Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 105-20.
- Savory, H.N. 1950. List of hill-fort and other earthworks in Wales, II. Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 234.
- Whittle 1992: A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 43.