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Bryngwyn Wood Camp
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1421
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1421 (1421)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Meifod
- National Grid reference
- SJ18351779
- Latitude
- 52.75151
- Longitude
- -3.21118
- Altitude
- 250 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 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Hollow Way (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1998); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG029(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 60
- National record
- record SJ 11 NE; monument 275924
- Wikidata
- Q31064548
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. 446, 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.