New Pieces Enclosure, Breiddin Hill (Hillfort) — The Modern Antiquarian

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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.

juamei Mar 25, 2018

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)

thesweetcheat Jun 7, 2015

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

GLADMAN Nov 10, 2011

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New Pieces Enclosure, Breiddin Hill

Hillfort

GLADMAN Nov 10, 2011

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]‘

Sites within 20km of New Pieces Enclosure, Breiddin Hill

Breiddin Hill Camp

Hillfort • 0.47km WNW

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Cefyn y Castell

Hillfort • 1.02km ESE

20

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Crosswood

Enclosure • 3.98km NW

4

2
Crowther’s Camp

Enclosure • 5.66km WSW

1

1
Bryn Mawr

Enclosure • 6.86km WNW

2

1
Black Bank

Hillfort • 7.24km SSW

3

1
Caus Castle

Hillfort • 7.3km ESE

12

1

1
Gaer Fawr (Welshpool)

Hillfort • 7.41km WSW

16

1

4
Beechfield

Hillfort • 8.23km SSE

1

1
Collfryn

Enclosure • 8.3km W

1

1
Llanymynech Hill

Ancient Mine / Quarry • 8.75km NW

6

6

1
Beacon Ring

Hillfort • 8.81km SSW

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1
Blodwel Rock

Hillfort • 9.4km NW

4

3
Y Gaer (Meifod)

Enclosure • 9.49km W

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Maen Llog

Standing Stone / Menhir • 9.65km SW

3

4
Nesscliffe Hill Camp

Hillfort • 10.55km ENE

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4
Soldier’s Mount

Hillfort • 10.58km WNW

2
Long Hill

Hillfort • 10.72km W

1
Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled (Destroyed)

Timber Circle • 11.99km SW

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2
Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled

Cursus • 12.2km SW

2
Callow Hill Camp

Hillfort • 12.61km ESE

1

1
Castle Ring (Rorrington)

Hillfort • 13.49km SSE

1

1
Golfa

Enclosure • 13.85km WSW

1
The Hoarstones

Stone Circle • 14.33km SSE

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7
Pen-y-Foel

Hillfort • 14.35km SW

2

1
Mynydd-y-Bryn

Round Cairn • 14.39km WNW
Earl’s Hill and Pontesford Hill

Hillfort • 14.42km ESE

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4
Castle Ring (Shelve)

Hillfort • 14.92km SE

10

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Stapeley Hill

Ring Cairn • 15.05km SSE

15

2
The Cow Stone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 15.13km SSE

7

2
Pennerley Barrows

Round Barrow(s) • 15.56km SE

9

1
Mitchell’s Fold

Stone Circle • 15.6km SSE

87

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9

1
Dyffryn Lane

Henge • 15.66km SW

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2

1
Mitchell’s Fold cairn

Cairn(s) • 15.71km SSE

4

1
Maen Beuno

Standing Stone / Menhir • 15.8km SW

2

4
Cefn-yr-allt

Hillfort • 15.91km SW

1
Coed-y-Gaer (Oswestry Rural)

Hillfort • 16.3km NW

1
Cefn-Cyfronydd

Enclosure • 16.34km WSW

2

1
Llwyn Bryn Dinas

Hillfort • 16.38km WNW

10

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The Berth

Hillfort • 16.38km NE

1

1
Whetstones

Stone Circle • 16.39km SSE

4

1

1
Whetstones Cairn

Cairn(s) • 16.5km SSE

3

1
The Stiperstones

Cairn(s) • 16.96km SE

22

6
Old Oswestry

Hillfort • 16.98km NNW

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2

15

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Pant Brwynog

Cairn(s) • 17.28km SSE

2
Cynynion

Standing Stone / Menhir • 17.29km NW

8

2
Corndon Hill

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 17.3km SSE

45

2
Cothercott Hill

Round Barrow(s) • 18.04km ESE

3

2
Pentre Camp (Llangyniew)

Hillfort • 18.49km WSW

1
Ffridd Faldwyn

Hillfort • 18.89km SSW

11

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Cwm Mawr Stone Axe Factory

Ancient Mine / Quarry • 19km SSE

2

2
Roundton

Hillfort • 19.01km S

2

1
Carreg y Big (Selattyn)

Standing Stone / Menhir • 19.23km NNW

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3
Maes Mochnant

Standing Stones • 19.29km W

12

3
Castle Ring (Ratlinghope)

Hillfort • 19.44km ESE

9

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Castle Ring tumulus

Round Barrow(s) • 19.48km ESE

6

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The Burgs

Hillfort • 19.8km E

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