Location
- Atlas number
- WA1269 (1269)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penybont
- National Grid reference
- SO 08930 61480
- Latitude
- 52.24391
- Longitude
- -3.33529
- Altitude
- 305 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
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 8
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- RD008(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 50039
- National record
- record SO 06 SE; monument 96530
- Wikidata
- Q31061926
Sources
References
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT,