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Pwll-y-Clai
Denbighshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1175
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1175 (1175)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Denbighshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cyffylliog
- National Grid reference
- SJ08055866
- Latitude
- 53.11715
- Longitude
- -3.37534
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100722
- National record
- record SJ 05 NE 1; monument 306616
- Wikidata
- Q31118627
Sources
References
- Davies, Canon Ellis 1929: The prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 374.