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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Pyon Wood
Country: England County: Herefordshire Type: Hillfort

Map Ref: SO424664  Landranger Map Number: 137
Latitude: 52.292697N  Longitude: 2.845955W
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
 4 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.
 4 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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Pyon Wood
Pyon Wood submitted by jfarrar : An overgrown track leads up into the hill fort. A large rampart has an entrance on the north-eastern side of the hill, although there is doubt this is an original entrance. Much of the ramparts, there being two, have been destroyed over the years. The top of the hill is a triangular hump, seeming hardly a good site for a settlement. Although there are no “Keep Out” signs, the whole ambience i... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Herefordshire

An overgrown track leads up into the hill fort. A large rampart has an entrance on the north-eastern side of the hill, although there is doubt this is an original entrance. Much of the ramparts, there being two, have been destroyed over the years. The top of the hill is a triangular hump, seeming hardly a good site for a settlement. Although there are no “Keep Out” signs, the whole ambience is far from welcoming.
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SO4266 : Pyon Wood by Richard Webb
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SO4266 : Ramparts, Pyon Wood by Richard Webb
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SO4266 : Yatton View by J Scott
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SO4266 : Track below Pyon Wood by Philip Halling
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SO4266 : Arable farmland by Philip Halling
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Re: Pyon Wood by Anonymous on Friday, 13 September 2002
(comment from "Walker in the High Places")

Not such an inaccessible or potentially fearful fort as Croft Ambrey, one COULD attempt this one alone.
The usually reliable online RomanBrit.org reproduces an old shibboleth (I have read it also in the British Library) that Pyon's main defence is its precipitous steepness. This is simply incorrect. From all sides it is perfectly climbable, and from the main Leintwardine to Aymestry road, the approach is extremely flat...

Pyon (the Victorian OS has it as Pion, either way it surely comes from Old Welsh for headland) is a place of deep quietness.. few birds sing. The ramparts, especially the main gate to the north, are remarkably clear and visible for a site hardly ever mentioned as a Celtic fortress (Explorer maps until recently did not even register an Iron Age site here). All the more pleasure you will find in discovering this secret place for yourself.
Each time you visit, you will find deer staring you out territorially; each time you will find something subtly..rather unsettlingly... altered at the crest of the camp.
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