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Coed Mawr Gaer
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1203
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1203 (1203)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandinam
- National Grid reference
- SO01578780
- Latitude
- 52.47919
- Longitude
- -3.45078
- Altitude
- 300 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.67 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1778); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1858
- National record
- record SO 08 NW 5; monument 305895
- Wikidata
- Q31061590
Sources
References
- Pennant, T. 1778. A tour in Wales, Vol I, London: Henry Hughes.
- 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. 332, 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, 341, 46, Bath: Adams and Dart.