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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Grosmont Fawr
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 1.393 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Monmouthshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Abergavenny  Nearest Village: Bont
Map Ref: SO389210  Landranger Map Number: 161
Latitude: 51.884196N  Longitude: 2.889114W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 3
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Re: Grosmont Fawr by Sunny100 on Wednesday, 09 December 2015
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Just thought about this: there's a hillfort on the side of Skirrid Fawr (Holy Mountain) to the north-east of Abergavenny. Cross Ash and Bont are just a few miles further to the east. Maybe a genuine mistake.
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Re: Grosmont Fawr by Sunny100 on Wednesday, 09 December 2015
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I used to go on holiday to Grosmont, but cannot recall there being a hill-fort in that area, nor in the village itself. There is an interesting church and cross (or there was a cross), and obviously there's the castle. There isn't a hillfort at Cross Ash or Bont neither, but that's Wikipedia for you!
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Re: Grosmont Fawr by JRB on Wednesday, 09 December 2015
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This seems like an unlikely site for a hillfort, especially given that Edmund's Tump (423m) is just 1.5km to the east. Coflein doesn't have anything in this locality. Is there any supporting evidence for this record, or is there a georeferencing error?
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    Re: Grosmont Fawr by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 09 December 2015
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    I do agree that this given position does look unlikely for any hillfort, but I must point out that our grid ref is only quoted as accuracy 3, so don't read too much into the position given, it could be several miles out. It is also a very old entry to our database, done before we had any accuracy values, so I cannot say where this grid ref came from.

    However, I can find little else readily available on the web to back it up, other than this little snippet from Wikipedia.
    "There are circumstantial indications (Pickford, 2003) that Grosmont may have originated as an Iron Age camp."

    Unless anybody can add further information, I think we should move the position to Grosmont village (SO404244) and change accuracy to 2, nearest village.
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