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Knucklas Castle
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1267
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1267 (1267)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Beguildy
- National Grid reference
- SO 24983 74531
- Latitude
- 52.36365
- Longitude
- -3.10313
- Altitude
- 274 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- RD085(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 50002
- National record
- record SO 27 SW; monument 306398
- Wikidata
- Q31061838
Sources
References
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.