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Plas-y-Gaer
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1444
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1444 (1444)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanfrynach
- National Grid reference
- SO03292462
- Latitude
- 51.91165
- Longitude
- -3.40741
- Altitude
- 320 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.58 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Hollow Way (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1980); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR154(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 929
- National record
- record SO 02 SW 2; monument 305740
- Wikidata
- Q31064885
Sources
References
- Silvester, B. 2007. The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Defended enclosures in Brecknock, CPAT Report No 859, Welshpool: CPAT.
- RCAHMW 1986. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Brecknock (Brycheiniog). The Prehistoric and Roman monuments, Vol 1, Part 2, Hill-forts and Roman remains, HF 28, London: HMSO.