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y Breiddin
Powys, Wales · Atlas WA1276
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1276 (1276)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bausley with Criggion
- National Grid reference
- SJ295144
- Latitude
- 52.72269
- Longitude
- -3.04425
- Altitude
- 366 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Oblique (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1977); Excavation (1933-1935); Excavation (1969-1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG021(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 50055
- National record
- record SJ 21 SE; monument 141162
- Wikidata
- Q31061944
Sources
References
- Buckland, P.c., Parker Pearson, M., Wigley, A. and Girling, A. 2001. Is there anybody out there? A reconstruction of the environmental evidence from the Breiddin hillfort, Ant J, 81, 51-76.
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- Musson, C.R., 1970. The Breiddin 1969, Current Arch, 19, 215-18.
- Musson, C.R. 1972. Two winters at the Breiddin, Current Arch, 33, 263-67.
- Musson, C.R. 1976. Excavations at the Breiddin 1969-1973, in ed. D.W. Harding, Hillforts, later prehistoric earthworks in Britain and Ireland, London: Academic Press, 293-302.
- Musson, C.R. 1991. The Breiddin hillfort. A later prehistoric settlement in the Welsh Marches, London: CBA Research Report No 76.
- Musson, C. 2012. Montgomeryshire hillforts and enclosures from the air, in Britnell, W.J. and Silvester, R.J. (eds) Reflections on the past. Essays in honour of Frances Lynch. Cambrian Archaeological Association, 351-368.
- O'Neil, B.H. St.J. 1937. Excavations at the Breiddin Hill Camp, Montgomeryshire 1933-35, Archaeol Camb, 97, 1-57.