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Cwrt-yr-Ala Camp, Dinas Powys
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Atlas WA4339
Location
- Atlas number
- WA4339 (4339)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Historic county
- Glamorgan
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Andrews Major
- National Grid reference
- ST15207160
- Latitude
- 51.43739
- Longitude
- -3.22065
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 4, SW 4, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Other (2003); Other (2011); Excavation (2012); Excavation (1954-1959); Other (1962-1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00014s
- National record
- record ST 17 SW 13; monument 301314
- Wikidata
- Q31119324
Sources
References
- Alcock, L. 1963. Dinas Powys, University of Wales Press.
- RCAHMW, 1991. Glamorgan Inventory, III.1a, The Earlier Castles, 95-100.
- Seaman, A. and Lane, A. 2012 , Archaeological Excavation at Tyn Y Coed Enclosure, Dinas Powys, South Glamorgan, Unpublished monograph.
- Wiggins, H. and Evans, E. 2005, Prehistoric defended enclosures in Glamorgan with recommendations for fieldwork, Unpublished monograph, GGAT.