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Castle Ring, Pen Offa
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1382
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1382 (1382)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Old Radnor
- National Grid reference
- SO 2665 6360
- Latitude
- 52.26562
- Longitude
- -3.07627
- Altitude
- 340 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- RD062(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 297
- National record
- record SO 26 SE 1; monument 306369
- Wikidata
- Q31063612
Sources
References
- Burnham, H. 1995: A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 69.
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT,