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Gwernheylod Banks
Denbighshire, Wales ยท Atlas WA1560
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1560 (1560)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Historic county
- Flintshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Overton
- National Grid reference
- SJ36884336
- Latitude
- 52.98383
- Longitude
- -2.94165
- Altitude
- 58 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1964); Other (1981)
Identifiers
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 100155
- National record
- record SJ 34 SE
- Wikidata
- Q31118677
Sources
References
- Grant, I. and Jones, N.W. 2008. Defended enclosures in North-east Wales, 2007-08, Project Report, CPAT Report No 921, Welshpool: CPAT.