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Graig Fawr Camp, Hundred House
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1384
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1384 (1384)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glascwm
- National Grid reference
- SO 13133 58411
- Latitude
- 52.21700
- Longitude
- -3.27295
- Altitude
- 353 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.82 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (North west)
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
- RD112(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 327
- National record
- record SO 15 NW 3; monument 140288
- Wikidata
- Q31063656
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. 191, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1952: List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, IV, Radnorshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 77.
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.