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Tump Wood Camp
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1327
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1327 (1327)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Talybont-on-Usk
- National Grid reference
- SO11272149
- Latitude
- 51.88484
- Longitude
- -3.29062
- Altitude
- 356 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Outworks (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (1969); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR036(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 649
- National record
- record SO 12 SW 3; monument 306012
- Wikidata
- Q31062602
Sources
References
- Burham, H. 1995. A guide to Ancient and Historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 85-7.
- 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 43, London: HMSO.