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Cefn-y-Castell
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1198
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1198 (1198)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Trewern
- National Grid reference
- SJ30551335
- Latitude
- 52.71331
- Longitude
- -3.02952
- Altitude
- 343 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and berm
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); Outworks (South west); In-turned (North west); Outworks (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886-1887); Other (1978-1992); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG007(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1704
- National record
- record SJ 31 SW 9; monument 307135
- Wikidata
- Q31061641
Sources
References
- Lines, H. H. 1889. Breidden Hill camp and other camps in the vicinity , Montgomeryshire Collect, 23, 321-44.
- 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.
- O'Neil, B. H. St. J. 1937. Excavations at Breiddin Hill Camp, Montgomeryshire, 1933-35 , Arch Camb, 92, 86-128.
- Silvester, R.J. and Britnell, W.J. 1993. Montgomeryshire small enclosures project. Summary Report 1993, CPAT Report No 80, Welshpool, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
- Spurgeon, C.J. 1972. Enclosures of Iron Age type in the Upper Severn Basin, In Lynch, F. and Burgess, C. (eds.) 1972, Prehistoric man in Wales and the West, 332, Bath: Adams and Dart.