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Image of New Pieces Enclosure, Breiddin Hill (Hillfort) by juamei

Image Credit: Natural Resources Wales

Image credit: LiDAR Composite Dataset. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0.
Image of New Pieces Enclosure, Breiddin Hill (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

New Pieces Enclosure (centre), flanked by Breiddin Hill on the left and Moel y Golfa on the right. Seen across the Hafren/Severn from near The Maesydd.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.7.2011)
Image of New Pieces Enclosure, Breiddin Hill (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

Looking across the ‘New Pieces’ site to Breiddin Hill from the powerful defences of Cefyn y Castell, Middletown Hill. Nice.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

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New Pieces Enclosure, Breiddin Hill
Hillfort

Three defended settlements stand in parallel.... here upon the beautiful Welsh/English – or should that be English/Welsh? – border, not far from Shrewsbury... Ha! Merely lines upon maps, methinks.

According to our friends at Coflein, the central site is:

‘A roughly sub-oval enclosure, c.56m N-S by 54m, set n a S facing hillside, c.240m SE of the Breiddin Hillfort (Nprn141162) defined by one or two lines of widely spaced collapsed stone ramparts, 106m N-S by 78m overall.
The enclosure has been associated with the field system (Nprn306995) between it and the Breiddin fort. Excavation, 1933-5, produced RB material, late 1st-4th c. [J.Wiles 12.11.2002]‘

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