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Pentre Camp, Llangyniew
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1486
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1486 (1486)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llangyniew
- National Grid reference
- SJ11730957
- Latitude
- 52.67659
- Longitude
- -3.30703
- Altitude
- 207 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 5, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (2007); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG124(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 759
- National record
- record SJ 10 NW; monument 306750
- Wikidata
- Q31065441
Sources
References
- Driver, T. 2007. Reference, Coflein, RCAHMW.
- 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. 581 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.