CLAWDD BRYTHONIG; CLAWDD BRITISH

Site Details

NPRN
304642
Map Reference
SN83NE
Grid Reference
SN86253687
Unitary (Local) Authority
Powys
Old County
Brecknockshire
Community
Maescar
Type of Site
DEFENDED ENCLOSURE
Broad Class
Defence
Period
IRON AGE

Site Description

Clawdd Brythonig has been described as 'a small camp of obscure purpose', this is interpreted as an Iron Age defended enclosure, with an internal platform, 35m by 13m separated from the encircling ramparts by a probable quarry-ditch. The rampart does not continue about the east end, where the ground tails away to a natural spur and the entrance is thought to be located. Suggestions that this is a medieval castle site are not now favoured.
140m to the SE is a second, undated enclosure (Nprn90149), whilst the surrounding area has been much affected by recent military activity (see Nprn90150).

(source Os495card; SN83NE1)
J.Wiles 03.04.02