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y Gaer, Llandewi Ystradenni
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1378
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1378 (1378)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandewi Ystradenni
- National Grid reference
- SO 11447 69911
- Latitude
- 52.32010
- Longitude
- -3.30065
- Altitude
- 417 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.67 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- RD093(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 271
- National record
- record SO 16 NW 4; monument 306136
- Wikidata
- Q31063513
Sources
References
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.