Location
- Atlas number
- WA1374 (1374)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Churchstoke
- National Grid reference
- SO28159146
- Latitude
- 52.51624
- Longitude
- -3.06028
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883); Other (1909); Other (1990-1997); Other (1999-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG129(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 204
- National record
- record SO 29 SE; monument 306407
- Wikidata
- Q31063387
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 Bro Trefaldwyn Historic Landscape: historic landscape characterization, Unpublished report, Welshpool: CPAT.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.
- 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.