Twyn-y-Gaer (Mynydd Illtyd)

Nearest town:
Brecon (5km E)
OS reference:
SN990281
OS sheet:
160
Latitude:
51° 56' 30.23 N
Longitude:
3° 28' 10.17 W
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Twyn-y-Gaer (Mynydd Illtyd)

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elderford Aug 2, 2003
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Near A40, 5km west of Brecon, Powys.

OS map required.

Public rights of way lead up to it.

Worth it for the view alone. It is worth bearing in mind when visiting that the tree covered hill across directly to the east also has a hillfort on it but that there is no public access to it.

Oval in shape, single bank and entrance, 112m across (east to west). Evidence of quarrying and perhaps the remains of a medieval stone foundations.

Mountain Centre Standing Stones 1 and 2 are nearby.

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Twyn-y-Gaer (Mynydd Illtyd)
Hillfort
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 29, 2009
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Site description from Coflein:

"A sub-oval hill top enclosure, about 110m east-west by 88m, defined by scarps above steep natural slopes on the west, with a rampart & ditch, pierced by an axial entrance, on the east, where an internal quarry ditch is also in evidence.

Set in the midst of a warren of pillow mounds, within an extensive suggested field system"

coflein.gov.uk/en/site/305069/details/TWYN+Y+GAER%3BY+GAER%2C+PEN-PONT/

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