Lewes Castle

Nearest town:
Burry Port (14km N)
OS reference:
SS414873
OS sheet:
159
Latitude:
51° 33' 42.19 N
Longitude:
4° 17' 18 W
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Images

Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by GLADMAN

Looking back toward Rhossili.... an arc of defences can be seen just below the wall, centre right. Not the most impressive of banks, but there nonetheless.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Dec 27, 2015
Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by GLADMAN

It’s easy to forget people used to live up here.... I bet the children grew up fast.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Dec 27, 2015
Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by GLADMAN

The Mam C provides scale to unwittingly emphasise the natural defences of this wondrous site...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Dec 27, 2015
Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by GLADMAN

I’d say ‘cliff fort’ is an appropriate categorisation.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Dec 27, 2015
Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by thesweetcheat

The fort occupies the flat-topped cliff, centre of image. Seen from Mewslade Bay.

Image credit: A. Brookes (4.4.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 6, 2015
Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by thesweetcheat

Landscape context for three of SW Gower’s cliff forts. Seen across Fall Bay from Tears Point.

Image credit: A. Brookes (27.4.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 15, 2013
Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by thesweetcheat

Approaching the fort from the east. The two lines of defence, although much-reduced, are visible crossing the picture (the inner rampart is marked by sheep).

Image credit: A. Brookes (27.4.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 15, 2013
Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by GLADMAN

As mentioned, the defences are not impressive in nature.... but thankfully can still be determined.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Mar 6, 2013
Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by thesweetcheat

The inner bank crossing the centre of the picture. Thurba headland, with its own (better) fort can be seen on the left.

Image credit: A. Brookes (7.4.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 19, 2012
Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by thesweetcheat

The eastern arc of the outer bank, curving across the picture from the bottom left corner to the centre.

Image credit: A. Brookes (7.4.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 19, 2012
Image of Lewes Castle (Cliff Fort) by thesweetcheat

Inner bank (mid-ground) and outer (foreground). From the east.

Image credit: A. Brookes (7.4.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 19, 2012

Articles

Lewes Castle

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CARL Oct 2, 2013

Visited 30.9.13

Directions:
You can either use the public footpath from Middleton to the north east or follow the coastal path from Rhossili. Either way the path runs right past this Cliff Fort.

There is not much left to see.
Just a half-circle low grass bank approximately 1m in height.
It appears that over the years the sea has washed away most of the cliff containing the majority of the fort.

Lovely views over Fall Bay.

Link

Lewes Castle
Cliff Fort
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Apr 19, 2012
Coflein

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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