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<< Our Photo Pages >> High Pennard - Hillfort in Wales in West Glamorgan

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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: High Pennard
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 3.8 km away from the location you searched for.

County: West Glamorgan Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Swansea  Nearest Village: Bishopston
Map Ref: SS567866  Landranger Map Number: 159
Latitude: 51.560024N  Longitude: 4.068614W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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.
3 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
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Hillfort in West Glamorgan

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Re: High Pennard by Gedv1 on Tuesday, 23 August 2011
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After parking at the National Trust car park, Southgate ( as the local cliff top roads are privately owned ), it is a pleasant 1 km walk either along the open, wind-swept cliff top or the adjacent metalled road, east to Hunts bay, and thence the public footpath acoss towards Pwll Du head. Just before the actual south facing headland of Pwll Du, a separate promontory faces south west towards Lundy island, and it is upon here that High Pennard promontory fort will be found.

Coflein records that the site is over-wild with gorse and fern, but this week's visit was otherwise, with the two ditch/embankments to be clearly seen. The most easterly, the outer, is marginally the lesser of the two being perhaps less well defined, and, after a goodly depth of maybe 10m or more to the inner ditch, its embankment rises in a somewhat ( albeit very low ) motte impression to the inner space of the fort.

Three houses have been identified here in the main plateau of the fort, but where is anyone's guess, as the fort is cut through in part on its north and north-westerly sides by 19C quarry workings. Indeed, an attraction of the whole location are the many quarry pits. It is clear that the whole south and westerly sides have been historically quarried away, as the very small plateau of the fort drops away 200ft down to the sea shore and rocks below.

It is impossible to know how the westerly side cliffs were during the 1st and 2nd C. occupation when seen today, for as a defensive and protective site, the location offers its occupants few options.

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