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Moel Bentyrch
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1405
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1405 (1405)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfair Caereinion
- National Grid reference
- SJ05530949
- Latitude
- 52.67483
- Longitude
- -3.39868
- Altitude
- 335 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 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1330
- National record
- record SJ 00 NE 1; monument 306515
- Wikidata
- Q31063683
Sources
References
- Griffith, E. 1883. History of the parish of Llanerful , The Montgomeryshire Collections, 16, 71-92.
- Hankinson, R. 2008. Defended enclosures in Montgomeryshire. A further study. Project Report. CPAT Report No 918, Welshpool: Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, 1911. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, I, County of Montgomery, London: HMSO.