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The Knave, Rhossili
Swansea, Wales · Atlas WA2457
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2457 (2457)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rhossili
- National Grid reference
- SS 4317 8635
- Latitude
- 51.55421
- Longitude
- -4.26355
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); In-turned (North west); Oblique (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Excavation (1938); Other (1965); Other (1986); Other (2005); Earthwork Survey (2014); Geophysical Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM128
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00142w
- National record
- record SS 48 NW; monument 301326
- Wikidata
- Q31055639
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.
- Hart, R. 2014. GOWER, Paviland and the Knave promontory forts SS 43182 86375 & SS 43709 85955. Archaeoleg yng Nghymru. Archaeol Wales , 54, 176-77.
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, Vol I: Pre-Norman, Part II The Iron Age and the Roman occupation, No. 699, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13.
- Williams, A. 1939. Excavations at The Knave promontory fort, Rhossili, Glamorgan, Arch Camb, 94, 210-19.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales, Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 51-2.