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Cross Oak
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1212
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1212 (1212)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Talybont-on-Usk
- National Grid reference
- SO11052355
- Latitude
- 51.90333
- Longitude
- -3.29435
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1969); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 3475
- National record
- record SO 12 SW 25; monument 142947
- Wikidata
- Q31061627
Sources
References
- RCAHMW 1986. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Brecknock (Brycheiniog). The Prehistoric and Roman monuments, Vol 1, Part 2, Hill-forts and Roman remains, HF 44, London: HMSO.
- Silvester, B. 2007. The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Defended enclosures in Brecknock, CPAT Report No 859, Welshpool: CPAT.