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Coed Swydd
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1379
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1379 (1379)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penybont
- National Grid reference
- SO 1368 6466
- Latitude
- 52.27326
- Longitude
- -3.26655
- Altitude
- 396 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 272
- National record
- record SO 16 SW; monument 306145
- Wikidata
- Q31063133
Sources
References
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.