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Gaer, Glascwm
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1415
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1415 (1415)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glascwm
- National Grid reference
- SO 08540 54830
- Latitude
- 52.18407
- Longitude
- -3.33920
- Altitude
- 282 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- RD237(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1619
- National record
- record SO 05 SE 3; monument 401568
- Wikidata
- Q31064393
Sources
References
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.