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Pendre, Talgarth
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1320
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1320 (1320)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Talgarth
- National Grid reference
- SO15583263
- Latitude
- 51.98565
- Longitude
- -3.23075
- Altitude
- 182 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (1981); Other (1982); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR062(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 556
- National record
- record SO 13 SE; monument 306036
- Wikidata
- Q31062471
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 53, London: HMSO.