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Pen-y-Gaer, Bettws-Cedewain
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1476
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1476 (1476)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bettws
- National Grid reference
- SO13979762
- Latitude
- 52.56955
- Longitude
- -3.27079
- Altitude
- 299 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1909); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961); Other (1978-1991); Other (1990-1997); 1st Identified Written Reference (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG155(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1032
- National record
- record SO 19 NW; monument 306224
- Wikidata
- Q31065412
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, No. 31, 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, 28, Bath: Adams and Dart.