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Pen-y-Castell, Kerry
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1453
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1453 (1453)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kerry
- National Grid reference
- SO13408755
- Latitude
- 52.47895
- Longitude
- -3.27657
- Altitude
- 345 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Earthwork Survey (1978); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 997
- National record
- record SO 01 8NW 2; monument 306201
- Wikidata
- Q31064626
Sources
References
- Collens, J.1988. Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in the Upper Severn Valley, Unpublished thesis, University of Birmingham
- Hankinson, R. 2008. Defended enclosures in Montgomeryshire. Project Report. CPAT Report No 918, Welshpool: CPAT.
- Hughes, I .T. 1928. The hill camps of Montgomeryshire, The Montgomeryshire Collections, 40, 85-108.
- 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, No. 296, London: HMSO.
- Spurgeon, C.J. 1972: In Lynch, F. and Burgess, C. (eds.), Prehistoric man in Wales and the west, 335, 34, plan, Bath: Adams and Dart.