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Pen-y-Crug
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1311
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1311 (1311)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yscir
- National Grid reference
- SO02933037
- Latitude
- 51.96327
- Longitude
- -3.41426
- Altitude
- 331 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 4, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.86 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South 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
- Other (1982); Other (1983); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1889); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR063(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 466
- National record
- record SO 03 SW; monument 92058
- Wikidata
- Q31062318
Sources
References
- Burham, H. 1995. A guide to Ancient and Historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 70.
- Hogg A.H.A. 1965. Early Iron Age Wales, in Foster, I. LL. and Daniel, S. Prehistoric and Early Wales, London;
- Savory, H.N. 1952. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, III, Brecknockshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 14, 71.
- 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.