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Drostre Bank
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1318
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1318 (1318)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Felin-fach
- National Grid reference
- SO101313
- Latitude
- 51.97299
- Longitude
- -3.30950
- Altitude
- 284 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 7
- Enclosed area
- 0.85 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (North east); Hollow Way (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1977); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 537
- National record
- record SO 13 SW 5; monument 14047
- Wikidata
- Q31062099
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 51, London: HMSO.