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Gwern Ddu Wood
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1425
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1425 (1425)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Meifod
- National Grid reference
- SJ14101074
- Latitude
- 52.68749
- Longitude
- -3.27229
- Altitude
- 122 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- commercial forestry
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1978); Other (1998); Other (2011); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 70
- National record
- record SJ 11 SW 4; monument 306780
- Wikidata
- Q31064207
Sources
References
- Cambrian Archaeological Projects, 1998. Forest Enterprise Welsh Heritage Assets Project, Archaeological Survey Phase III, Contract 6, Clocaenog/Cynwyd/Ceiriog/Mathrafal/Ceri.
- 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. 763, 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.
- Silvester, R.J. 2011. Recent Research on Late Prehistoric and Romano-British Enclosures in Montgomeryshire , The Montgomeryshire Collections, 99, 1-26.