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Cwm Berwyn
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1533
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1533 (1533)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Radnorshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glascwm
- National Grid reference
- SO 07275 54830
- Latitude
- 52.18386
- Longitude
- -3.35770
- Altitude
- 390 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Footprint
- 0.96 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (West); Over-lapping (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- RD123(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1625
- National record
- record SO 05 SE 9; monument 305826
- Wikidata
- Q31065522
Sources
References
- Royal Commission on the ancient and historical monuments and constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire 1913. An inventory of the ancient monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, III, County of Radnor, No. 435, London: HMSO.
- Savory, H.N. 1952: List of hill-forts and other earthworks in Wales, IV, Radnorshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 16, 76.
- Silvester, R.J. and Hankinson, R. 2006. Defended enclosures in Radnorshire. Project report, CPAT Report 781, Welshpool: CPAT.