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Pen-y-Clun

Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1200

Location

Atlas number
WA1200 (1200)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Powys
Historic county
Montgomeryshire
Parish, community, or townland
Llanidloes Without
National Grid reference
SN92578749
Latitude
52.47471
Longitude
-3.58315
Altitude
360 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate and partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 2, SE 1, 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, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
In-turned (North west); Out-turned (North west)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and scrub or bracken

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
quarry hollows
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1990-1997)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
MG031(POW)
HER
Clwyd Powys 1834
National record
record SN 98 NW 4; monument 304943
Wikidata
Q31061653

Sources

References

  1. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, 1911. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, I, County of Montgomery, No. 593, London: HMSO.
  2. Silvester, R.J. and Britnell, W.J. 1993. Montgomeryshire small enclosures project. Summary Report 1993, CPAT Report No 80, Welshpool, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
  3. 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, 336, 33, Bath: Adams and Dart.