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Waun Tincer, Enclosure

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NPRN84663
Map ReferenceSN91SE
Grid ReferenceSN9733014050
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPowys
Old CountyBrecknockshire
CommunityYstradfellte
Type Of SiteENCLOSURE
PeriodPrehistoric
Description
An enclosure, associated with a number of cairns, lies on the SE facing slope of Waun Tincer on the W side of the river Hepste. The enclosure, centred at is heart-shaped and measures 135m (N-S) by 120m with a perimeter bank consisting largely of consolidated rubble, but unconsolidated on the NW. In places the bank is spread to c.4m in width. On the N and NW, the edges of shake holes lying outside the enclosure have been skirted but the bank has started to collapse into them. There are two possible entrance gaps, on the N and on the NE, both c.1.5m wide. Immediately to the E of the N entrance a later wall, some 1.5m wide and 0.8m high, has been built on top of the bank (which at this point is itself 0.3m high). After running along the bank for about 15m, the wall turns S into the interior of the enclosure, fading into a rubble bank some 1.5m wide and 0.3m high, about 35m from the entrance. The wall appears to have been constructed with material from the earlier bank.
Three cairns and a possible hut circle within the enclosure suggest an agricultural/settlement context for it see NPRNs 301924-5).

DKL/DJP 11.85