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Craig Rhiwarth
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1412
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1412 (1412)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangynog
- National Grid reference
- SJ054269
- Latitude
- 52.83213
- Longitude
- -3.40519
- Altitude
- 533 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 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Hollow Way (North east); Oblique (North east); In-turned (North east); Simple Gap (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North west); Hollow Way (North west); Oblique (North west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, rectangular stone structures, and curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1880); Excavation (1933); Earthwork Survey (1974); Excavation (1975); Earthwork Survey (1978); Other (1978); Excavation (1980); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1974-2012); Other (
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG004(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1465
- National record
- record SJ 02 NE; monument 306533
- Wikidata
- Q31064302
Sources
References
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO.
- Crew, P., Guilbert, G. and Roe, D. 2012. Craig Rhiwarth Hillfort, Montgomeryshire, In Britnell, W.J., and Silvester, R.J. (eds) , Reflections on the Past: Essays in honour of Frances Lynch, Cambrian Archaeological Association.
- Musson, C. 2012. Montgomeryshire hillforts and enclosures from the air, in Britnell, W.J. and Silvester, R.J. (eds) Reflections on the past. Essays in honour of Frances Lynch. Cambrian Archaeological Association, 351-368.
- Richards, R. 1938. Craig Rhiwarth, The Montgomeryshire Collections, 45, 196-200.
- Robinson, G. E. 1880. Hut dwellings in Montgomeryshire , Arch Camb, 11, 25-30.
- Roe, D. and Crew, P. , 1975 . Craig Rhiwarth, Arch in Wales, 15, 37.
- Roe, D. and Crew, P. 1977. Craig Rhiwarth Hillfort, Arch in Wales, 17, 23.
- 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, No. 633, London: HMSO.
- Sayce, R. U. 1937 , The Stone Rings of Craig Rhiwarth, The Montgomeryshire Collections, 45, 121-104.
- Silvester, R.J. and Britnell, W.J. 1993. Montgomeryshire small enclosures project. Summary Report 1993, CPAT Report No 80, Welshpool, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.