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Cwm Cefn-y-Gaer
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1377
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1377 (1377)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Landdewi Ystradenny
- National Grid reference
- SO 12098 70035
- Latitude
- 52.32132
- Longitude
- -3.29113
- Altitude
- 380 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 4.66 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- RD011(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 270
- National record
- record SO 17 SW; monument 306137
- Wikidata
- Q31063471
Sources
References
- Royal Commission on the ancient and historical monuments and constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire 1913. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, III, County of Radnor, No. 292, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1952: List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, IV, Radnorshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 76.
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.