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Black Bank
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1360
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1360 (1360)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Trewern
- National Grid reference
- SJ26380760
- Latitude
- 52.66108
- Longitude
- -3.08995
- Altitude
- 274 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG141(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 131
- National record
- record SJ 20 NE 3; monument 306950
- Wikidata
- Q31063261
Sources
References
- Lynch, F. and Burgess, C. (eds.) 1972: Prehistoric man in Wales and the west, 327, 5, plan, Bath: Adams and Dart.