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Pen-Llys
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1420
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1420 (1420)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfihangel
- National Grid reference
- SJ10501500
- Latitude
- 52.72519
- Longitude
- -3.32669
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.69 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west); Hollow Way (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1887); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG230(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 59
- National record
- record SJ 11 NW 4; monument 306766
- Wikidata
- Q31064488
Sources
References
- 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. 461, 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.