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Dolforwyn Castle, Abermule
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1277
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1277 (1277)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandyssil
- National Grid reference
- SO15189501
- Latitude
- 52.54628
- Longitude
- -3.25227
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Excavation (1981-2002); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG114(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 50091
- National record
- record SO 19 NE; monument 300392
- Wikidata
- Q31061971
Sources
References
- Butler, L.A.S. and Knight,, J.K. 2004. CADW Guide to Montgomery and Dolforwyn castles, Cardiff: CADW.
- Silvester, R.J. and Britnell, W.J. 1993. Montgomeryshire small enclosures project. Summary Report 1993, CPAT Report No 80, Welshpool, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
- Spurgeon, C. J. 1966. The castles of Montgomeryshire , The Montgomeryshire Collections, 58, 1-59.
- Spurgeon, C.J. 1972. Enclosures of Iron Age type in the Upper Severn Basin, In Lynch, F. and Burgess, C. (eds.) 1972, Prehistoric man in Wales and the West, Bath: Adams and Dart.