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Westwood Corner
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Atlas WA2436
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2436 (2436)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barry
- National Grid reference
- ST09196689
- Latitude
- 51.39370
- Longitude
- -3.30665
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Investigations
- Excavation (1981); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 02103s
- National record
- record ST 06 NE
- Wikidata
- Q31119344
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.