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Beacon Ring
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1367
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1367 (1367)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
- National Grid reference
- SJ2646505818
- Latitude
- 52.64507
- Longitude
- -3.08831
- Altitude
- 408 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1883); Geophysical Survey (2009); Geophysical Survey (2010); Earthwork Survey (2011); Other (1990-1997); 1st Identified Written Reference (801-1000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG011(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 134
- National record
- record SJ 20 NE 5; monument 306947
- Wikidata
- Q31063289
Sources
References
- Collens, J., 1988. Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in the Upper Severn Valley, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Birmingham.
- CPAT 2008. Beacon Ring, CPAT Newsletter, Autumn 2008, 2-5, Welshpool: CPAT.
- Musson, C. 2012. Montgomeryshire hillforts and enclosures from the air, in Britnell, W.J. and Silvester, R.J. (eds) Reflections on the past. Essays in honour of Frances Lynch. Cambrian Archaeological Association, 351-368.
- Olding, F. 2011. Early Welsh Literature - a window on the Dark Age?, Brycheiniog, 42, 93-100.
- 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, 327, 5, Bath: Adams and Dart.