Tump Wood Camp

Nearest town:
Brecon (10km WNW)
OS reference:
SO113215
OS sheet:
161
Latitude:
51° 53' 4.19 N
Longitude:
3° 17' 19.99 W
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Images

Image of Tump Wood Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Another view of the possible hut circle to the north of the defended extent.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.10.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 26, 2015
Image of Tump Wood Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

What looked to me very much like a hut circle to the north of the ramparts. There’s no reference on either Coflein or GGAT though.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.10.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 26, 2015
Image of Tump Wood Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Two of the three lines of ramparts on the north of the fort.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.10.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 26, 2015
Image of Tump Wood Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Triple lines of ramparts on the northern side, where the natural slope is at its least steep.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.10.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 26, 2015
Image of Tump Wood Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Stone blocks (sandstone) protrude from the ramparts in a few places.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.10.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 26, 2015
Image of Tump Wood Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

The fort is sufficiently prominent to rise above the temperature inversion filling the Usk valley with cloud.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.10.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 25, 2015
Image of Tump Wood Camp (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

A sunburst brings the light... metaphorically as well as literally, since traces of ancient man still fill this landscape to the horizon. The Tump Wood enclosure is indicated, with Allt-yr-Esgair hillfort behind to its left. The skyline is occupied by The Black Mountains, their summits bearing Bronze Age burial cairns, their valleys the Neolithic variety. The viewpoint is Carn Pica, most probable site of another Bronze Age cairn.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Aug 16, 2010

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Tump Wood Camp
Hillfort
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 13, 2012

There are two separate Iron Age earthworks on this hill. Coflein descriptions:

Tump Wood Camp (SO11272150)

Tump Wood Camp is a multivallate hilltop enclosure, with an internal area of c.120m by 68m.

Pen-y-Wenallt enclosure (SO11162095)

The partly bulldozed, sub-rectangular enclosure at Pen-y-Wenallt measures 55m N-S by 42m, and is defined by scarps, or banks, and ditches.

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