LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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HER: Clwyd Powys 100385 (None)
NMR: SJ 35 SW (155646)
SM: None
NGR: SJ 3054 5328
X: 330540 Y: 353280 (OSGB36)
Former, large, univallate, contour hillfort located on a ridge overlooking the Moss Valley at Wrexham to the E. Resting originally on steep slopes to N and E and now virtually destroyed by development and defences largely built-over, the houses forming the core of the village of Broughton. Formerly sub-triangular in shape measuring c. 366m SSE-NNW by 188m, with internal area c. 6.9ha. Intermittent single rampart with no visible outer ditch reported, with section by Guilbert in 1973 finding rampart at least 5m wide fronted by two possible dry-stone revetments and flat berm 0.6m wide, but no ditch. Possible former inturned entrance on S. On OS 1:2500 map (1962). Undated.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -338212 Y: 6996365 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -3.038208168128255 Latitude: 53.07220264611624 (EPSG:4326)
Country: Wales
Current County or Unitary Authority: Wrexham
Historic County: Denbighshire
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Broughton
Virtually entirely built on.
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✓ |
Gardens, houses and churchyard.
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✗ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✗ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✓ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Univallate hillfort is located on a ridge overlooking the Moss Valley to E. Steep slopes to N and E.
| Contour Fort | ✓ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✗ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✓ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✓ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✗ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: Ridge
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✓ |
Altitude: 180.0m
N/A
None
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | None |
On OS 1:2500 map (1962). Sectioned by G.C. Guilbert 1973. CPAT defended enclosures in North-east Wales survey 2007-08.
| Other (1962): | OS 1:2500 map. |
| Excavation (1973): | G.C. Guilbert. |
| Other (None): | CPAT defended enclosures in North-east Wales survey. |
None
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Features | ✓ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✓ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| APs Not Checked | ✓ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Possible former inturned entrance on S.
| 1: | Estimated. |
| 2: | Estimated. |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
| 1. In-turned (South): | None |
Intermittent single rampart with no visible outer ditch reported, with section by Guilbert in 1973 finding rampart at least 5m wide fronted by two possible dry-stone revetments and flat berm 0.6m wide, but no ditch.
| Area 1: | 6.9ha. |
| Total: | 6.9ha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | Area estimated. |
| ✓ | No details, but possibly one rampart completed the circuit before destruction. |
| NE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SW Quadrant: | 1 |
| NW Quadrant: | 1 |
| Total: | 1 |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✓ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
Almost entirely built upon.
| None | ✓ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Intermittent single rampart with no visible outer ditch reported, with section by Guilbert in 1973 finding rampart at least 5m wide fronted by two possible dry-stone revetments and flat berm 0.6m wide, but no ditch.
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✓ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✓ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✗ | None reported. |
Number of Ditches: 0
| ✗ | None |
Davies, Canon Ellis 1929. Prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire, Cardiff: William Lewis, 54.
Grant, I. and Jones, N.W. 2008. Defended enclosures in North-east Wales, 2007-08, Project Report, CPAT Report No 921, Welshpool: CPAT.
Guilbert, C.C. 1974. A section of the earthwork at Bryn y Gaer, Broughton, Trans Denbighshire Hist Soc, 23, 65-9.
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