Location
- Atlas number
- WA1326 (1326)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfrynach
- National Grid reference
- SO 0821 2911
- Latitude
- 51.95284
- Longitude
- -3.33710
- Altitude
- 317 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.43 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1959); Other (1978); Other (1982); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR247(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 620
- National record
- record SO 02 NE 12; monument 305714
- Wikidata
- Q31062562
Sources
References
- Savory, H.N. 1952. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, III, Brecknockshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 14, 72.
- Savory, H.N. 1971. Prehistoric Brecknock, Brycheiniog, XV, 3-22.
- 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 31, London: HMSO.