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Llangenny Camp
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1222
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1222 (1222)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- The Vale of Grwyney
- National Grid reference
- SO22811859
- Latitude
- 51.86049
- Longitude
- -3.12234
- Altitude
- 228 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant 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
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.29 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1978); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887-1889); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR061(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 695
- National record
- record SO 21 NW 12; monument 306250
- Wikidata
- Q31061747
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 63, London: HMSO.
- Silvester, B. 2007. The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Defended enclosures in Brecknock, CPAT Report No 859, Welshpool: CPAT.