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Allt-yr-Esgair
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1300
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1300 (1300)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangors
- National Grid reference
- SO1261024350
- Latitude
- 51.91076
- Longitude
- -3.27188
- Altitude
- 390 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1979); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR153(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 657
- National record
- record SO 12 SW 12; monument 92158
- Wikidata
- Q31062117
Sources
References
- 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.
- 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 46, London: HMSO.