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Cefn Cyfronydd
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1409
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1409 (1409)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Castle Caereinion.
- National Grid reference
- SJ14350839
- Latitude
- 52.66641
- Longitude
- -3.26798
- Altitude
- 182 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1338
- National record
- record SJ 10 NW; monument 306752
- Wikidata
- Q31063737
Sources
References
- Collens, J., 1988. Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in the Upper Severn Valley, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Birmingham.
- 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.
- Silvester, R.J. and Britnell, W.J. 1993. Montgomeryshire small enclosures project. Summary Report 1993, CPAT Report No 80, Welshpool, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.