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Pen Rhiw Wen
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1315
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1315 (1315)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bronllys
- National Grid reference
- SO12773790
- Latitude
- 52.03259
- Longitude
- -3.27300
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 7
- Enclosed area
- 0.88 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1979); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR085(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 504
- National record
- record SO 13 NW 4; monument 306028
- Wikidata
- Q31062423
Sources
References
- Savory, H.N. 1952. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, III, Brecknockshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 14, 73.
- 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 59, London: HMSO.