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Castle Bank, Glascwm
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1395
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1395 (1395)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glascwm
- National Grid reference
- SO 08704 56078
- Latitude
- 52.19532
- Longitude
- -3.33714
- Altitude
- 373 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, vitrification, other burning, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Out-turned (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- RD149(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1088
- National record
- record SO 05 NE; monument 305802
- Wikidata
- Q31063923
Sources
References
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.