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Llanymynech Hill
Powys, Wales · Atlas WA0071
Location
- Atlas number
- WA0071 (71)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carreghofa
- Also recorded in
- Shropshire
- National Grid reference
- SJ264221
- Latitude
- 52.79176
- Longitude
- -3.09174
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Excavation (1981); Excavation (1995); Other (2004); 1st Identified Written Reference (1701-1800); Other (1970-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 100478 (England)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 50650
- National record
- record SJ 22 SE; monument 92487
- Wikidata
- Q31061588
Sources
References
- Barnwell, E. L. 1870. The early antiquities of the county of Montgomeryshire, The Montgomeryshire Collections, 3, 415-52.
- Fox, C. and Hemp, W. J. 1926. Llanymynech and Blodwell Hillforts, Arch Camb, 81, 395-400.
- Jones, N. W., Silvester, R. J. and Britnell, W. J. 2003. Montgomery Canal Conservation Management Strategy. Landscape Archaeology Assessment, Unpublished report, Welshpool: CPAT.
- Jones, N. W., Hankinson, R. and Silvester, R. J. 2012. Llanymynech Hill: Cultural Heritage and Management, Unpublished report, Welshpool: CPAT.
- Musson, C. R. 1981. Llanymynech Hillfort, Arch in Wales, 21, 31.
- Musson, C. 2012. Montgomeryshire hillforts and enclosures from the air, in Britnell, W.J. and Silvester, R.J. (eds) Reflections on the past. Essays in honour of Frances Lynch. Cambrian Archaeological Association, 351-368.
- Musson, C. R. and Northover, J. P. 1989. Llanymynech Hillfort, Powys and Shropshire: observations on construction work 1981, The Montgomeryshire Collections, 77, 15-26.
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, 1911. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, I, County of Montgomery, London: HMSO.