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Powys, Wales · Atlas WA1536
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1536 (1536)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bausley with Criggion
- National Grid reference
- SJ2976313998
- Latitude
- 52.71903
- Longitude
- -3.04131
- Altitude
- 289 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and metalworking
- Investigations
- Excavation (1996); Geophysical Survey (1996); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886-1887); Excavation (1933-1935); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG21(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 1259
- National record
- record SJ 21 SE; monument 94037
- Wikidata
- Q31065555
Sources
References
- Arnold, C.J. and Davies, J.L. 2000. Roman early medieval Wales, Stroud: Strpud Publishing.
- Arnold, C. J. and Huggett, J.L. 1996. New Pieces , Arch in Wales, 36, 95-6 .
- Burnham, H. 1995. A guide to ancient and historic Wales - Clwyd and Powys, London: HMSO, 66-7.
- Brown 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow.
- Collens, J. 1988. Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in the Upper Severn Valley, Unpublished thesis, Univsrity of Birmingham.
- Davies, J.L. 2012. The Romans in Mid Wales: Montgomeryshire , The Montgomeryshire Collections, 100, 45-65.
- Forde-Johnston, J. 1962. Earl's Hill, Pontesbury and related hillforts in England and Wales , Arch J, 119, 66-91.
- O'Neil, B. H. St. J. 1937. Excavations at Breiddin Hill Camp, Montgomeryshire, 1933-35 , Arch Camb, 92, 86-128.
- Silvester, R.J. and Britnell, W.J. 1993. Montgomeryshire small enclosures project. Summary Report 1993, CPAT Report No 80, Welshpool, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
- Silvester, R.J. 2011. Recent Research on Late Prehistoric and Romano-British Enclosures in Montgomeryshire, The Montgomeryshire Collections, 99, 1-26.
- 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, 334, 31, Bath: Adams and Dart.