Beacon Hill, Radnorshire - Royal Commission on the Ancient and ...

© Crown Copyright, 2008Contents<strong>Beacon</strong> <strong>Hill</strong>:An Uplands Initiative Archaeological SurveyRichard Hayman & Wendy Horton1.0 Introduction ……………………………………………………. 12.0 Methodology ……………………………………………………. 23.0 Results of Survey ……………………………………………………. 23.1 Use of aerial mapping ……………………….. 163.2 Summary and statement of significance ……………………….. 174.0 Recommendations ……………………………………………………. 175.0 References …………………………………………………………. 20Appendix 1: Table of sites by period, altitude and type ……………………. 00List of tablesTable 1 sites grouped by contour ……………………………………… 2Table 2 sites grouped by period ………………………………………. 3Table 3 sites grouped by Broad Class …………………………………. 4Table 3 sites to be appended to Ordnance Survey mapping………………. 18List of figuresFigure 1 location plan …………………………………………….. 1Figure 2 Rhos Crug barrows …………………………………… 5Figure 3 Lawn Farm <strong>Hill</strong>fort …………………………………………. 5Figure 4 Short Ditch ………………………………… 6Figure 5 Building platform on Cefn Pawl …………………………….. 7Figure 6 Long hut on Warren Bank ………….………………………… 8Figure 7 Cultivation ridges above Cwm yr Ingel ……..……………..... 9Figure 8 Cultivation ridges above Lawn Brook ……………………… 10Figure 9 Field banks on Cefn Pawl …………………………….. 11Figure 10 Boundary stones on <strong>Beacon</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> ………………………. 11Figure 11 Wern y geiniog farmstead ………………………………….. 12Figure 12 Cefn Pawl …………………………….. 12Figure 13 New Invention ………………..…………………………….. 13Figure 14 Pillow mound on Warren Bank …………………………… 14Figure 15 Cefn Pawl lead mine reservoir …………………………… 15Figure 16 Quarry on <strong>Beacon</strong> <strong>Hill</strong> …………………………… 16