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<< Text Pages >> Sully Island Promontory Fort - Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle in Wales in South Glamorgan

Submitted by coldrum on Saturday, 02 July 2011  Page Views: 4941

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Sully Island Promontory Fort
Country: Wales County: South Glamorgan Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Nearest Town: Barry
Map Ref: ST16876697
Latitude: 51.395652N  Longitude: 3.196264W
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
2 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.
2 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
5

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Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle in South Glamorgan

The east end of Sully Island is defended by a succession of three ramparts. There has been erosion, particularly on the south, and the north half is thickly overgrown; the present area of the main enclosure is about 0.4 ha, but it may originally have been twice as much. The inner rampart, cutting off the subsidiary promontory at the point of contraction, was fronted by a ditch and is thought to have been revetted, or walled in stone.

Source: Coflein
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ST1666 : Sully Island by Alan Hughes
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ST1666 : The geology of Sully Island by Alan Hughes
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ST1666 : Rock falls on Sully Island by Alan Hughes
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ST1667 : Eastern end of Sully Island by Jaggery
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ST1667 : Easterly point of Sully Island by Mick Lobb
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