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Caer Fawr, Llanelwedd
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1532
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1532 (1532)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanelwedd
- National Grid reference
- SO 0579 5308
- Latitude
- 52.16788
- Longitude
- -3.37892
- Altitude
- 392 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1618
- National record
- record SO 05 SE; monument 305821
- Wikidata
- Q31065029
Sources
References
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.