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Careg-Wiber Bank
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1393
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1393 (1393)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandrindod Wells
- National Grid reference
- SO 0838 5948
- Latitude
- 52.22584
- Longitude
- -3.34280
- Altitude
- 381 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.93 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Hollow Way (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- southeast
- 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
- RD031(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1084
- National record
- record SO 05 NE 1; monument 305806
- Wikidata
- Q31063853
Sources
References
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.