GGAT00057g

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Y Gaer: Graig-y-Saeson/Coed y Defaid Camp

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 00057g
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Coedkernew
Unitary authority : Newport
NGR : ST27338620
Site Type (preferred type first) : Iron Age Hillfort
Status : Scheduled Monument

Summary :
Small bi-vallate hill-top camp. The strength of the rampart indicates that this was a defensive earthwork & the construction seems typical of an Iron Age fort.

Description :
Small bi-vallate hill-top camp. The strength of the rampart indicates that this was a defensive earthwork & the construction seems typical of an Iron Age fort.

The hillfort is situated on a hilltop to the west of Newport. Circular and with a single bank and outer ditch, the interior is mainly flat, but slopes gently to the south. In the middle of the east side is a gap of about 3m, 1.6m deep, with a corresponding causeway across the ditch. The bank has an external height of 2.5m, and internal height of 1m (south of the gap) and 2m (north of the gap). The ditch is 1.5m deep. south of the causeway is becomes boggy and a ditch or watercourse leads off it to the east, turns to the southeast and then runs along a field boundary before petering out. Along the north side the bank has an internal height of 2m and an external height of 3m and the ditch here is 1-2m deep. (Wiggins 2006)

Sources :
Locock, M , 1994 , Archaeological desk-based assessment Pentrepoeth (A468 Bassaleg Bypass) (

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Rowe, S.J. , 2003 , Cleppa Park (Gwern y Cleppa): Sites of Historic Interest
Savory H.N. , 1950 , List of Hill-Forts and Other Earthworks in Wales: II Monmouthshire , The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies : XIII pt.IV : 231-238
Wiggins, H , 2006 , Prehistoric defended enclosures in Gwent (

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05/MM Desc Text/AM 107/Whittle E/1987//
01/MM Record Card/OS//1962/ST 28 NE 14/
04/MM AP/GGAT/Parkhouse J/10.2.86//
03/MM Record Card/OS//1978/ST 28 NE 14/
02/PM Desc Text//Savory HN/1948-50/BBCS/Vol 13.p 235
06/MMAP/RCAHM//1992//925305-13
07/MM Desc Text/CADW/1991/AM107/
07/AP/West Air Photography ref 29151/Copy in further information file.

Events :
E001550 : Prehistoric defended enclosures Gwent (year : 2006)
E003853 : Pentrepoeth (A468 Bassaleg Bypass) (year : 1994)
E003700 : Graig-Y-Saeson Farm, Newport (year : 1992)
E004909 : Cleppa Park (Gwern y Cleppa) (year : 2003)
E008229 : Bassaleg School, Newport (year : 2019)
E008661 : Tredegar Park Golf Course, Newport (year : 2003)
E008663 : Tredegar Park Sports Field, Newport (year : 2006)
E008664 : Tredegar Park Sports Field, Newport (year : 2006)
E008736 : Land at and adjoining Imperial Park, Newport (year : 1996)

Related records
National Monuments Record NPRN 307812 http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/307812/details

Compiled date : 27-01-1988

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