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Gaer Fach, Merthyr Cynog
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1308
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1308 (1308)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Merthyr Cynog
- National Grid reference
- SO 0090 3664
- Latitude
- 52.01926
- Longitude
- -3.44561
- Altitude
- 415 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (1968); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR053
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 452
- National record
- record SO 03 NW 3; monument 92048
- Wikidata
- Q31062254
Sources
References
- Savory, H.N. 1952. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, III, Brecknockshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 14, 72.
- 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 36, London: HMSO.