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Lower Ucheldre Camp
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1456
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1456 (1456)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bettws (Powys)
- National Grid reference
- SO14069860
- Latitude
- 52.57837
- Longitude
- -3.26972
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
- Water source
- flush
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Other (1909); Other (1978-1991); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG156(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1031
- National record
- record SO 19 NW; monument 306225
- Wikidata
- Q31065301
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.