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Ffinant Isaf, Aberysgir
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1306
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1306 (1306)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yscir
- National Grid reference
- SN98193195
- Latitude
- 51.97662
- Longitude
- -3.48370
- Altitude
- 335 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1980); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 447
- National record
- record SN 93 SE 3; monument 305051
- Wikidata
- Q31061865
Sources
References
- 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 12, London: HMSO.