Lengthy description of Iron Age "boundary" earthwork.
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Detailed description of pear-shaped, univallate fort.
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Pastscape contains a detailed description. Summary:
The substantial earthworks of an Iron Age promontory fort known as Countisbury Castle, but more commonly referred to as Wind Hill, have been surveyed by field investigators at 1:2500 and transcribed from aerial photographs. The defensive earthworks, which comprise an east-facing bank and ditch with a broad low counterscarp bank, cross a saddle of land between sea cliffs to the north and the precipitous slopes of the East Lyn Valley on the south. The earthworks are broken by the modern route of the A39 and an original entrance, to the east of which extends an outworks. The southern end of the western rampart is abutted an extended westwards by a lynchet of probable medieval date.
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Pastscape contains a detailed description. Summary:
The earthwork remains of an Iron Age promontory fort or hillfort and annexe. The headland of Bolt Tail is occupied by an Iron Age promontory fort of about 4.9. hectares, defended by a rampart 274 metres long and up to 4.6 metres high, with indications of a stone facing wall up to 4 feet high on its outer eastern side. The well-marked inturned entrance is approached by a hollow-way and guarded on the north by an arc-like outwork of stone, with a mound some 13 feet high by 53 feet long.
The hollow-way from the gate leads to a minor fortification on lower ground, where a small promontory facing north to Bigbury Bay is cut off by line of rampart running north-west to south-east, and about 2.7 metres high.
There is an entrance near the cliff-edge on the north-west. This camp seems to have been an annexe for the larger fort, sited to guard a fresh-water supply and observe Hope Cove below.Scheduled.
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Includes aerial photo of the site.
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Includes some excellent aerial photos of the hillfort.
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Paleolithic baton made from carved reindeer antler - object page on the British Museum website.
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Listerinepree's November 2012 visit blog. Lovely photos of the ancient yew.
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Information on Canmore suggests there may have been a circle here, or even a Clava cairn. Given the stone's position in the Nairn Valley, close to the river and between the Clava cairns at Dalcross Mains and Cantraybruich, this doesn't seem too implausible, but the lack of remains make it unlikely that we shall ever know.
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Detailed description of the fort, from site visits over a long period.
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Extensive description of excavated cairn, with varied views as to its classification.
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Includes a lovely photograph of the Uskmouth footprints (double-click the photo to enlarge).
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Description of the fort or round.
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Link to summary excavation report and site plan.
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Link to picture of cup and ring marked packing stone recovered when the standing stone collapsed in 2009.
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Link to WRAO website, with description and pictures.
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47 people have been rescued from Worm's Head since the lookout station opened in March 2007.
Don't say you weren't warned!
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Coflein website includes aerial photos of the fort.
Crescentic double banks with a medial ditch, c.92m in length, cut off a craggy promontory, within is a less prominent, banked & ditched subrectangularenclosure, c.20m NNE-SSW by 18m, resting against the upsurge of the steeply rising promontory; both works have N-facing entrances.
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Coflein site includes several aerial photos of the fort.
Thurba Camp is a defensive complex set about a central enclosure c.50m by 40m perched on an irregular coastal promontory, defined by precipitous cliffs except where a stone-faced wall/rampart faces NE across the promontory isthmus, with two widely spaced lines of bank & ditch beyond , the outer having a c.90m frontage.
Up to seven circular structures have been noted associated with the central enclosure, although the site as a whole is obscurred by lime workings.
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