
View of the ploughed-down site from the northeast.
View of the ploughed-down site from the northeast.
The sheep are standing on the low remains of the bank.
The best-preserved section of bank, on the north. It’s difficult to see in the picture, but the remains of a ditch are visible on the inside of the bank.
Looking along the bank in the NW quadrant.
Crosswood enclosure could be seen as part of the complex of sites around Four Crosses and Llandysilio. It’s a circular enclosure with an internal ditch, bisected by the road from Rhos to Llandrinio. The road crosses the site about a third of the way from the northern part of the arc, so it’s not an obvious re-use of any original entrances. Sadly the earthwork has been much reduced by ploughing, rather similarly to the nearby line of Offa’s Dyke. It’s best preserved at the northwest, where both the bank and the internal ditch can be made out clearly, albeit not the easiest thing to photograph. Running east the bank gets even further reduced, to the point of near-disappearance.
On the south of the road we couldn’t see anything at all, but this did involve trying to peer through a pretty thick hedge!
Not the most impressive place to visit, but as pretty much the only visible remains of the numerous sites on this flat plan, it’s worth a quick hello.
This much-reduced circular feature has been considered as a possible henge. Certainly the ditch is internal to the bank. Coflein description:
A sub-oval enclosure, 132m N-S by 116m, defined originally by a bank and ditch, bisected by an E-W modern road and best preserved to the N.
CPAT website mentions eight possible henges in Montgomeryshire. This one is referred to as being at Four Crosses: