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Trefnanney Gaer

Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1346

Location

Atlas number
WA1346 (1346)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Powys
Historic county
Montgomeryshire
Parish, community, or townland
Meifod
National Grid reference
SJ2035515530
Latitude
52.73150
Longitude
-3.18093
Altitude
122 m

Form and condition

Type
partial contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial bivallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
3
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
Number of ditches
3
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.56 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (North east)

Landscape

Topographic position
ridge
Aspect
southwest
Land use
pasture

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1988); Other (1990-1997)

Identifiers

HER
Clwyd Powys 90
National record
record SJ 21 NW 4; monument 306989
Wikidata
Q31062506

Sources

References

  1. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, 1911. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, I, County of Montgomery, London: HMSO.
  2. Silvester, R.J. and Britnell, W.J. 1993. Montgomeryshire small enclosures project. Summary Report 1993, CPAT Report No 80, Welshpool, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
  3. Spurgeon, C.J. 1972. Enclosures of Iron Age type in the Upper Severn Basin, In Lynch, F. and Burgess, C. (eds.) 1972, Prehistoric man in Wales and the West, Bath: Adams and Dart.