LLANMELIN WOOD, LESSER ENCLOSURE;OUTPOST

Site Details

NPRN
307960
Map Reference
ST49SE
Grid Reference
ST46369283
Unitary (Local) Authority
Monmouthshire
Old County
Monmouthshire
Community
Shirenewton
Type of Site
DEFENDED ENCLOSURE
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Iron Age;Medieval

Site Description

A roughly oval enclosure, about 52m north-east to south-west by 32m, banked, ditched and counterscarped, the circuit is not preserved on the south-east.
The site lies about 235m north-east of the Llanmelin Wood enclosures (Nprn301559): trenching across the defences, in 1930-32, produced Iron Age pottery from the banks, overlain by deposites containing 12th century AD material.

(source Os495card; ST49SE1)

RCAHMW AP945061/45

J.Wiles 24.02.03