The almost sheer plunge down to Halldrine Cove from the fort. Looking north-east towards Gurnard’s Head cliff fort.
Image credit: A. Brookes (16.6.2021)
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You cannot help but wonder why they built them in such inhospitable places, regardless, such great places to visit.
The cliffs either side of this one are covered with contemporary field systems that are still in use, as well as some Iron Age settlement sites. Away from the cliffs it's much less inhospitable. The interior of this fort is very rocky, so I'd guess it was either a look out, or used for some specific purpose, but not for general habitation.
I guess I didn't really mean inhospitable, more like precipitous locations. I understand the need to protect their land, however, given the rough sea and steep cliffs unlikely to be attacked from there and if they are attacked from land then they would have already over run the fields by the time they reach the fort with no way out for the defendants (and any animals) other than down the cliffs, if just a general lookout then why build fortified banks? Just find it curious