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Twyn y Gaer, Defynnog
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1321
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1321 (1321)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cray
- National Grid reference
- SN92252630
- Latitude
- 51.92472
- Longitude
- -3.56837
- Altitude
- 343 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.72 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886-1887); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR035(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 573
- National record
- record SN 92 NW 3; monument 92029
- Wikidata
- Q31062531
Sources
References
- Savory, H.N. 1952. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, III, Brecknockshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 15, 72.
- Silvester, B. 2007. The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Defended enclosures in Brecknock, CPAT Report No 573, 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, London: HMSO.