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Pen-y-Castell Ii
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1199
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1199 (1199)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanidloes Without
- National Grid reference
- SN94558809
- Latitude
- 52.48049
- Longitude
- -3.55419
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial 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
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG082(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1831
- National record
- record SN 98 NW 3; monument 304944
- Wikidata
- Q31061648
Sources
References
- 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, 337, 40, Bath: Adams and Dart.