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Glog Hill Camp

Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1381

Location

Atlas number
WA1381 (1381)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Powys
Historic county
Radnorshire
Parish, community, or townland
Llangunllo
National Grid reference
SO 23249 68946
Latitude
52.31321
Longitude
-3.12731
Altitude
330 m

Form and condition

Type
partial contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
0.6 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (South west)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
east
Land use
woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
other roundhouse evidence
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
RD098(POW)
HER
Clwyd Powys 279
National record
record SO 26 NW 2; monument 306357
Wikidata
Q31063583

Sources

References

  1. 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. 48, London: HMSO.
  2. Savory, H.N. 1952: List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, IV, Radnorshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 78.
  3. Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.