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Pen-yr-Allt
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1317
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1317 (1317)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Felin-fach
- National Grid reference
- SO11083269
- Latitude
- 51.98549
- Longitude
- -3.29628
- Altitude
- 300 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (1979); Other (1982); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR039(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 535
- National record
- record SO 13 SW 3; monument 306048
- Wikidata
- Q31062449
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 54, London: HMSO.