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Mynydd Llangorse
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1192
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1192 (1192)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangors
- National Grid reference
- SO16032774
- Latitude
- 51.94176
- Longitude
- -3.22300
- Altitude
- 460 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1978); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR250(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 3860
- National record
- record SO 12 NE 7; monument 305990
- Wikidata
- Q31061603
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1986. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Brecknock (Brycheiniog). The Prehistoric and Roman monuments, Vol 1, Part 2, Hill-forts and Roman remains, HF 49, London: HMSO.
- Silvester, B. 2007. The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Defended enclosures in Brecknock, CPAT Report No 859, Welshpool: CPAT.