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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hobbyhorse Bay - Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle in Wales in Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro)
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Submitted by vicky on Sunday, 18 May 2003 Page Views: 12066
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Site Name: Hobbyhorse Bay Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 29.6 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro) Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Nearest Village: Castlemartin
Map Ref: SR887957
Latitude: 51.620352N Longitude: 5.053793W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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 Hobbyhorse Bay submitted by pab
Site in Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro): Linney Head promontory fort, Pembs. This shows not only the general view westwards across the defensive line of banks & ditches, but also demonstrates the reason the site is not very accessible - the rusted items in the background are tank carcasses!
 Hobbyhorse Bay submitted by pab
Site in Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro): Linney Head - this is the view west from the end of the ditch&bank defences, showing how well they complemented what nature had provided!
 Hobbyhorse Bay submitted by pab
Site in Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro): Surface of Linney Head fort. The very severe storms along this stretch of coast mean that the cliff edges are very exposed - this is the current easterly surface on the headland which could not support any vegetation.
I was left wondering what the Iron Age occupants would have made of a view like this... how on earth would they have made sense of these ridicu
 Hobbyhorse Bay submitted by pab
Site in Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro): Linney Head promontory fort, Pembs.
This shows the gulf along the eastern side of the headland, demonstrating why there was only a need for defences along the northern stretch...
 Hobbyhorse Bay submitted by pab
Site in Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro): Linney Head promontory fort.
This shows the eastern end of the bank & ditch defences - a single line on this side as opposed to the double one on the west.
 Hobbyhorse Bay submitted by pab
Site in Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro): Linney Head promontory fort.
Erosion of the limestone headland has exposed the edges of the bank & ditch defensive lines. This shot from across the chasm shows the edges rather well - for another example, you could check out Castell Bach further round the coast
 Hobbyhorse Bay submitted by pab
Site in Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro): Western view - from descriptions on COFLEIN, is seems likely that the banks etc once reached to the cliff edge, with the entry point being in the centre of the defences.
There is now room to go onto the headland from the western edge.
 Hobbyhorse Bay submitted by pab
Site in Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro): Linney Head promontory fort. Closer shot of site from the west, where the defences are a double line of bank & ditch.
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Re: Hobbyhorse Bay (Score: 1)
by PAB on Saturday, 06 June 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | As described in the COFLEIN entry for this site, there are very good cliffs defending 3 sides of this headland, with clear ditch & bank defences on the northern, landward side.
There is an entrance in the centre of the band of ditches, which are just over 150m across the headland's neck. Not having had time to check, and never quite being able to convert hectares to acres, I guess I will have to take COFLEIN's word for the area inside the banks being 0.8 hectares!
Just as described in my posts on nearby Flimston Head Hillfort, the coastal erosion along this stretch is destroying much of the headlands - here it has had the extra benefit of revealing a cross-section of bank, which is visible on the western end.
What I couldn't check (as I hadn't read it until afterwards!) was the assertion in the COFLEIN entry that this site has features suggesting an enclosure which predates the main Iron Age fort - please go to the COFLEIN site for details. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Hobbyhorse Bay (Score: 1)
by PAB on Saturday, 06 June 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | Condition: 4
Ambience: 4
Access: 1 - needs permit as on a closed part of MOD range!
Accuracy: 5 | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Hobbyhorse Bay (Score: 1)
by PAB on Saturday, 06 June 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Admin - can I suggest renaming this location to Linney Head Hillfort please? That seems to be the name used by COFLEIN and local historians. Hope this doesn't cause problems...? | [ Reply to This ]
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