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Cefn-Du Camp
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1268
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1268 (1268)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Guilsfield
- National Grid reference
- SJ1504109403
- Latitude
- 52.67562
- Longitude
- -3.25802
- Altitude
- 182 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG008(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 50032
- National record
- record SJ 10 NE 6; monument 306737
- Wikidata
- Q31061910
Sources
References
- 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. 213, 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.