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Atlantic Trading Estate

Time Periods

Paleolithic

Paleolithic

Mesolithic

Mesolithic

Neolithic

Neolithic

Chalcolithic

Chalcolithic

Bronze Age

Bronze Age

Iron Age

Iron Age

Classical Period

Classical Period

Post-Classical Period

Post-Classical Period

Early Modern Period

Early Modern Period

Industrial Period

Industrial Period

Contemporary Period

Contemporary Period

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About

The Atlantic Trading Estate is an industrial estate in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales, UK. It is situated near the mouth of the Cadoxton River which flows into the Bristol Channel at the Bendricks to the south-east of Barry Docks. It is accessed via the Associated British Port-owned Wimbourne Road from Ffordd-y-Mileniwm near Weston Square, Cadoxton or from the public Hayes Road from the Main B4267 Sully Moors Road, south-west of the village of Sully. It is sometimes considered to be in Sully. It covers an area of 9.22 acres (3.73 ha). It covers an area of 9.22 acres (3.73 ha). Archaeological excavation at the estate determined it had been used as a "prehistoric settlement and early Christian burial site". There was evidence of a Bronze Age settlement, as well as small, unenclosed inhumation cemeteries dating from the late-Roman through post-Roman periods.

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Country
United Kingdom
Source
Wikipedia