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Castle Ring, Old Churchstoke
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1373
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1373 (1373)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Churchstoke
- National Grid reference
- SO28909485
- Latitude
- 52.54681
- Longitude
- -3.04995
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (1990-1997); Other (1999-2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 195
- National record
- record SO 29 SE 3; monument 306408
- Wikidata
- Q31062932
Sources
References
- Britnell, W. J. Martin, C. H. R. and Hankinson, R. 2000. Bro Trefaldwyn Historic Landscape: historic landscape characterization, Unpublished report, Welshpool: CPAT.
- 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. 1966. The castles of Montgomeryshire, The Montgomeryshire Collections, 58, 1-59.
- 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, London: HMSO.