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Lower House Camp
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1352
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1352 (1352)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Berriew
- National Grid reference
- SJ16990350
- Latitude
- 52.62287
- Longitude
- -3.22772
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG154(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 112
- National record
- record SJ 10 SE; monument 306756
- Wikidata
- Q31063215
Sources
References
- Collens, J., 1988. Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in the Upper Severn Valley, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Birmingham.
- 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. 15, 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, 330, 15, Bath: Adams and Dart.