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Thurba Head
Swansea, Wales ยท Atlas WA2460
Location
- Atlas number
- WA2460 (2460)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Swansea
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rhossili
- National Grid reference
- SS42148704
- Latitude
- 51.56004
- Longitude
- -4.27874
- Altitude
- 54 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1964); Other (1986); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- GM127
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00141w
- National record
- record SS 48 NW 13; monument 301337
- Wikidata
- Q31055668
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. 698, Cardiff: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1949. List of hill-forts in Wales, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 157.
- Whittle, E. 1992. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO, 50-1.