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Maiden Castle, Oxwich
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA2459
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2459 (2459)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penrice
- National Grid reference
- SS50928548
- Latitude
- 51.54842
- Longitude
- -4.15152
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West); Simple Gap (West); Recesses/Guard Chambers (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1962); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 298
- National record
- record SS 58 NW; monument 301333
- Wikidata
- Q31055500
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.
- RCAHMW 1976. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan, Vol I: Pre-Norman, Part II The Iron Age and the Roman occupation, No. 701, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, X.