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Pen y Gaer, Llanidloes
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1202
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1202 (1202)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanidloes Without
- National Grid reference
- SN90828688
- Latitude
- 52.46888
- Longitude
- -3.60870
- Altitude
- 390 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Oblique (South east); Other Forms (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- flush
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886-1887); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG085(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1835
- National record
- record SN 98 NW 5; monument 304941
- Wikidata
- Q31061655
Sources
References
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, 327-28, 6, Bath: Adams and Dart.