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Cefn-yr-Allt
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1361
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1361 (1361)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Berriew
- National Grid reference
- SJ1935001940
- Latitude
- 52.60920
- Longitude
- -3.19248
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1909); Other (2003); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 114
- National record
- record SJ 10 SE; monument 306760
- Wikidata
- Q31062783
Sources
References
- Collens, J., 1988. Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in the Upper Severn Valley, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Birmingham.
- Jones, N. W., Silvester, R .J. and Britnell, W. J. 2003. Montgomery Canal Conservation Management Strategy. Landscape Archaeology Assessment, Unpublished report, Welshpool: CPAT.
- Lewis, S , 1833 , A Topographical Dictionary of Wales.
- 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, 336, 38, Bath: Adams and Dart.