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Blaen-Hepste, Hengiform Earthwork

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NPRN84650
Map ReferenceSN91SE
Grid ReferenceSN9633012960
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPowys
Old CountyBrecknockshire
CommunityYstradfellte
Type Of SiteHENGIFORM MONUMENT
PeriodBronze Age
Description
A hengiform earthwork of likely Bronze Age date lies on the floor of the Upper Hepste valley at about 320m O.D., only a short distance from an extensive settlement and field system (NPRN 84646) . The earthwork is turfed over and is partly infested with rushes. It is grazed by sheep.
The monument consists of a circular bank of earth and stone with internal ditch enclosing a central platform. The bank measures 12.5m (N-S) by 11.5m overall and 0.3m high above the exterior (0.6m above the ditch bottom). The platform measures 5.7m in diameter and 0.4m high above the ditch bottom. Access to the platform is provided, on the east, by a causewayed entrance flanked on the south by a stone slab. A small earthfast boulder projects from the platform on its south-west quadrant, close to its lip.
Small-scale excavations in summer 2010 revealed evidence for the former presence of an inhumation in a large pit at the centre, though no skeletal remains had survived (1).

(1) N.Jones, Archaeology in Wales 50 (2011), p.86-7.

David Leighton, RCAHMW, 12 December 2011