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Gaer Fawr, Guilsfield
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1347
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1347 (1347)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Guilsfield
- National Grid reference
- SJ 22410 13050
- Latitude
- 52.70951
- Longitude
- -3.14992
- Altitude
- 219 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.7 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.25 ha, 2.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); Oblique (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (South west); Outworks (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (2007); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG006(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 93
- National record
- record SJ 21 SW; monument 306997
- Wikidata
- Q31062897
Sources
References
- Barker, L , 2009. Gaer Fawr: An Analysis of the Earthworks, Aberystwyth: RCAHMW.
- Brown 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow.
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 64-5.
- 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, No. 214, London: HMSO.
- Silvester, R.J. and Britnell, W.J. 1993. Montgomeryshire small enclosures project. Summary Report 1993, CPAT Report No 80, Welshpool, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
- 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, 337, 39, Bath: Adams and Dart.