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Aberllynfi Gaer
Powys, Wales · Atlas WA1278
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1278 (1278)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gwernyfed
- National Grid reference
- SO17503758
- Latitude
- 52.03043
- Longitude
- -3.20399
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Hollow Way (North east); In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- parkland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1756); Other (1888); Excavation (1951); Other (1951-1983); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR159(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 50376
- National record
- record SO 13 NE; monument 306022
- Wikidata
- Q31062026
Sources
References
- Lloyd, J.C and Savory, H.N. 1958. Excavations at an early Iron Age hill-fort and a Romano-British iron-smelting place at Gwernyfed Park, Aberllynfi in 1951, Brycheiniog, 4, 53-71.
- RCAHMW 1986. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Brecknock (Brycheiniog). The Prehistoric and Roman monuments, Vol 1, Part 2, Hill-forts and Roman remains, HF 57, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1952. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, III, Brecknockshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 14, 74.
- Savory, H.N. 1954. List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales and Monmouthshire. Additions and corrections to Sections I-III, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 15, (1952-54), 230.
- Silvester, B. 2007. The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Defended enclosures in Brecknock, CPAT Report No 859, Welshpool: CPAT.