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Nant Tarthwynni West
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1194
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1194 (1194)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Talybont-on-Usk
- National Grid reference
- SO0895019440
- Latitude
- 51.86604
- Longitude
- -3.32378
- Altitude
- 411 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1980); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 4007
- National record
- record SO 01 NE 1; monument 305679
- Wikidata
- Q31061583
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 22, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales and Monmouthshire. Additions and corrections to Sections I-III, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 15 (1952-54), 230.
- Silvester, B. 2007. The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Defended enclosures in Brecknock, CPAT Report No 859, Welshpool: CPAT.