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Penmyarth Camp
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1333
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1333 (1333)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine
- National Grid reference
- SO17202070
- Latitude
- 51.87866
- Longitude
- -3.20429
- Altitude
- 280 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- guard chambers
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Recesses/Guard Chambers (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (1947); Other (1973-1982); Other (2006-2007); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR116(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 664
- National record
- record SO 12 SE; monument 275613
- Wikidata
- Q31062728
Sources
References
- Savory, H.N. 1952. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, III, Brecknockshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 15, 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, London: HMSO.