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Pen Ffawyddog Gaer
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1450
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1450 (1450)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Brecknockshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangattock
- National Grid reference
- SO19571845
- Latitude
- 51.85878
- Longitude
- -3.16934
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1977); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1889); Other (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- BR060(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 981
- National record
- record SO 11 NE 5; monument 3059976
- Wikidata
- Q31065057
Sources
References
- Savory, H.N. 1952. List of Hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, III, Brecknockshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 14, 73.
- 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 40, London: HMSO.