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Pen-Twyn Camp, Brilley
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0026
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0026 (26)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brilley
- National Grid reference
- SO 228485
- Latitude
- 52.12981
- Longitude
- -3.12880
- Altitude
- 328 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.82 ha
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007311
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE529 (second identifier 1013)
- National record
- record SO 24 NW 5; monument 104886
- Wikidata
- Q31114205
Sources
References
- Dorling, P. and Wigley, A. 2012. Assessment of the archaeological and conservation status of major later prehistoric enclosures in Herefordshire and Shropshire, EH PNUM, Version 3.2, Hereford and Shrewsbury: Herefordshire Council/Shropshire Council.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. The Victoria County History of the County of Herefordshire, 1, 203, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 3 (NW), 25, 30, London: HMSO.