Burry Holms

Nearest town:
Burry Port (9km NNE)
OS reference:
SS39889258
OS sheet:
159
Latitude:
51° 36' 31.42 N
Longitude:
4° 18' 45.55 W
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Image of Burry Holms (Promontory Fort) by thesweetcheat

Burry Holms from the east. The cairn is visible at the highest point of the promontory/island.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.4.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 16, 2013
Image of Burry Holms (Promontory Fort) by thesweetcheat

The grassed-over cairn at the highest point of the promontory/island. Looking NW across Carmarthen Bay.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.4.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 16, 2013
Image of Burry Holms (Promontory Fort) by thesweetcheat

At its southern end, the rampart terminates at the cliff face.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.4.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 16, 2013
Image of Burry Holms (Promontory Fort) by thesweetcheat

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.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.4.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 16, 2013
Image of Burry Holms (Promontory Fort) by thesweetcheat

The single rampart cuts across the promontory, cutting off the higher area on the left.

Image credit: A. Brookes (28.4.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 16, 2013
Image of Burry Holms (Promontory Fort) by thesweetcheat

An apparent rampart can be seen cutting across the back of the fort. The Preseli Hills can be dimly seen on the centre skyline.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.3.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 29, 2012
Image of Burry Holms (Promontory Fort) by thesweetcheat

Looking across Llangennith Burrows towards the almost-cut-off fort, from Rhossili Down.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.3.2012)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 29, 2012

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Burry Holms
Promontory Fort
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 20, 2012

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.

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