OSMap: LR170
Type: Marching Camp
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NGRef: SN8300 OSMap: LR170 Type: Marching Camp |
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It was not until 1974 that a medium-sized camp was discovered on Air Photographs about 2½ miles east-north-east of the large camp at Blaen-cwm-Bach. The site lies just south of Blaen-cwm-Caca in the south bank of the Melin Court Brook and has a long association with the history of the area. The Glamorgan County History records a Bronze-Age ring cairn, sometimes known as the 'Henllan stone circle', an Iron-Age double-ditched drystone enclosure containing at least one substantial round-house, also two possible Roman signal stations on Resolven Mountain.
| N.G.REF | DIMENSIONS | AREA | DESCRIPTION |
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| SN837001 | c.665 x 785 ft (c.203 x 239 m) | c.11¾ acres (c.4.8 ha) | Only about 60% of this camp's perimeter has been traced, which appears roughly square in outline. The rampart and ditch of the camp exists in places up to 12½ feet (c.3.8m) across. No gateways are visible. In 1985, the south-eastern rampart was cut-through by drainage-channels, and was found to have been laid upon a corduroy of logs. |
