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Crowther's Camp
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1348
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1348 (1348)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Welshpool
- National Grid reference
- SJ 24780 11290
- Latitude
- 52.69402
- Longitude
- -3.11444
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 0, SW 4, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1886); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG143(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 95
- National record
- record SJ 21 SW 3; monument 306998
- Wikidata
- Q31062962
Sources
References
- 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. 929, 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, 331, 18, Bath: Adams and Dart.