Slwch Tump

Slwch Tump
Alan Bowring · CC BY-SA 2.0

Slwch Tump, also known as Slwch Camp, is an Iron Age hillfort on a sandstone hill at 246 m elevation, about 1.3 km east of Brecon in Powys, Wales. The roughly rectangular enclosure measures approximately 187 by 242 metres with a single encircling scarp 3-4.6 m high and no ditch. Its entrance faces northwest toward Brecon. The hillfort lies within territory attributed to the Silures, a pre-Roman tribe of southeast Wales, and clusters with nearby forts at Pen-y-crug and Coed Fenni-fach, suggesting substantial late prehistoric population in the area.

TypeFortress/citadel
Period1500 - 500 BC
CountryWales
Coordinates51.9462° N, 3.3748° W

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