Home / Wales / Newport / Coed-y-Caerau Enclosure Complex
Coed-y-Caerau Enclosure Complex
Newport, Wales · Atlas WA4353
Location
- Atlas number
- WA4353 (4353)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Newport
- Historic county
- Monmouthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Langstone
- National Grid reference
- ST37899155
- Latitude
- 51.61894
- Longitude
- -2.89953
- Altitude
- 192 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.9 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.8 ha, 1.9 ha, 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Geophysical Survey (2005); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Glamorgan Gwent 00414g; 00415g; 00416g
- National record
- record ST 39 SE 39; monument 307891
- Wikidata
- Q31055711
Sources
References
- Wiggins, H. 2006. Prehistoric defended enclosures in Gwent, GGAT.