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Cefn Carnedd
Powys, Wales · Atlas WA1448
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1448 (1448)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llandinam
- National Grid reference
- SO017899
- Latitude
- 52.49898
- Longitude
- -3.44923
- Altitude
- 279 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); In-turned (North east); Other Forms (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG016(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 966
- National record
- record SO 09 SW; monument 94016
- Wikidata
- Q31064974
Sources
References
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO.
- Guilbert, G. and Morris, E., 1979. Montgomeryshire, Cefn Carnedd. Arch in Wales, 19, 19.
- Musson, C. 2012. Montgomeryshire hillforts and enclosures from the air, in Britnell, W.J. and Silvester, R.J. (eds) Reflections on the past. Essays in honour of Frances Lynch. Cambrian Archaeological Association, 351-368.
- 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, 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.
- Spurgeon, C.J. 1972. Enclosures of Iron Age type in the Upper Severn Basin, In Lynch, F. and Burgess, C. (eds.) 1972, Prehistoric man in Wales and the West, 339, 44, Bath: Adams and Dart.