<< Our Photo Pages >> Llanmelin Wood - Hillfort in Wales in Monmouthshire
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Llanmelin WoodCountry: Wales County: Monmouthshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Chepstow Nearest Village: Newchurch
Map Ref: ST46109260 Landranger Map Number: 171
Latitude: 51.629618N Longitude: 2.780105W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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rovingman visited on 10th Mar 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Visited on a lovely spring morning with swathes of primroses in flower.
A short walk uphill from the lane at ST4634 9281 along the signed path leads to the hillfort entrance at it's NE gateworks. The ground vegetation had been recently machined to give maximun exposure to it's features. It's an atmospheric place, larger and far more complex that I'd expected. It occupies a prominent hilltop and extending NW/SE ridge, all covered in well defined earthworks and features. There is a further banked 'outpost' visible from the entrance path, and on the left, shortly after leaving the lane.
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Byll writes: I visited on 14 Aug 2010 and after a steep climb on the south facing side crossed a style to reach the bottom of the outer rampart.Brambles were taking hold on the ramparts and the annex outside the gate to the west but the main enclosure was long grass with occasional sprouts of bracken coming through. I did not find any Cadw interpretation boards.
I left by an easier route from the gate on the north side along the southeast corner of a field rejoining the road at the top of the hill from where I had parked my car. There are impressive double ramparts and a secluded but friendly ambience on a warm arfternoon even with a bit of drizzle. I met two other walkers who had arrived from a different direction.
There is parking space to two or three cars on a verge on the corner at the bottom of the hill, the easiest approach is probably to walk up the road to the gate on the right at the top of the hill and around the hedge on the left of the corn field to the path through the woods to the north side of the hillfort. It might be possible to park at the top of the hill but the road is generally narrow and twisty, so the wider area on the corner with the gateways is not an ideal parking area.
Note: New Bat Walk at dusk, Llanmelin Hillfort, 11th September
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