
Burry Holms from the east. The cairn is visible at the highest point of the promontory/island.
Burry Holms from the east. The cairn is visible at the highest point of the promontory/island.
Looking south across the cairn to Worm’s Head.
The cairn, looking NE towards Whiteford Point.
The grassed-over cairn at the highest point of the promontory/island. Looking NW across Carmarthen Bay.
At its southern end, the rampart terminates at the cliff face.
Detail of the bank and ditch.
Fellow visitors give some scale to the single bank and ditch. Looking north across the Loughor/Llwchwr estuary to Pembrey and Burry Port in Carmarthenshire.
The single rampart cuts across the promontory, cutting off the higher area on the left.
Burry Homes from the south.
An apparent rampart can be seen cutting across the back of the fort. The Preseli Hills can be dimly seen on the centre skyline.
Looking across Llangennith Burrows towards the almost-cut-off fort, from Rhossili Down.
Coflein description:
A bank and ditch, about 100m in length with a simple causewayed entrance, cuts off the higher, western part of Burry Holmes island, effecting an enclosure, about 112m east-west by 60-100m. Romano-British pottery was found in excavating the ditch in 1965 and a roundhouse, 5.6m in diameter, dated by a sherd of 2nd century Samian was excavated at the western of the island, 2000-2001: the defended enclosure can be linked with underlying traces of occupation found when excavating the monastic site in the east of the island.