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Slwch Tump
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1324
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1324 (1324)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brecon
- National Grid reference
- SO05622840
- Latitude
- 51.94602
- Longitude
- -3.37458
- Altitude
- 246 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
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
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 (1889); Other (1978); Other (1982); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 611
- National record
- record SO 02 NE 3; monument 92032
- Wikidata
- Q31062192
Sources
References
- Burham, H. 1995. A guide to Ancient and Historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 70-1.
- Savory, H.N. 1952. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, III, Brecknockshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 14, 71.
- 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 30, London: HMSO.