Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Danish Camp
Margam, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A scheduled monument in Margam, Neath Port Talbot, recorded as Enclosure (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Enclosure
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Margam
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.57012, -3.70274
- SAM number
- GM056
- Cadw record number
- 245
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
Danish Camp a defended enclosure probably dating to the Iron Age (c. 800 BC - AD 43). The site lies at 220m above OD on ground falling to the west, just outside the north-east boundary wall of Margam deer park.
The monument consists of a simple earthwork oval enclosure, measuring about 42m long from north to south by 33m wide, though the west side is largely destroyed.The enclosed area is approximately 0.1ha. and is defined by a single bank, best preserved on the east where it is 3.5m wide and 0.7m high. The position of the entrance is uncertain.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of late prehistoric agricultural and defensive organisation. The monument forms an important element within the wider Iron Age context (Mynydd Margam is particularly archaeologically rich) and may be expected to contain archaeological information regarding elements such as chronology, building techniques and social organisation.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Camp N of TonmawrEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Camp 530m E of TonmawrEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Roman CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Mynydd y Castell CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.