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Castell-y-Dail
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1449
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1449 (1449)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- National Grid reference
- SO09438971
- Latitude
- 52.49772
- Longitude
- -3.33560
- Altitude
- 194 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 969
- National record
- record SO 08 NE 2; monument 305894
- Wikidata
- Q31064519
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, 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, 333, 26, Bath: Adams and Dart.