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Craig-y-Ddinas, Pontneddfechan
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1218
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1218 (1218)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ystradfellte
- National Grid reference
- SN91500805
- Latitude
- 51.76055
- Longitude
- -3.57354
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.52 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2.52 ha, 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and ridge
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 39154
- National record
- record SN 90 NW; monument 301695
- Wikidata
- Q31061630
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 4, London: HMSO.