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Yellow Top, Paviland
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA2458
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2458 (2458)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rhossili
- National Grid reference
- SS43708596
- Latitude
- 51.55115
- Longitude
- -4.25507
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1965); Other (1986); Other (2005); Earthwork Survey (2014); Geophysical Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM131
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent
- National record
- record SS 48 NW 30; monument 301339
- Wikidata
- Q31055655
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. 700, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 157.