Carn Ingli Camp

Nearest town:
Fishguard (10km WSW)
OS reference:
SN063372
OS sheet:
145
Latitude:
51° 59' 56.09 N
Longitude:
4° 49' 19.26 W
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Images

Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

The narrow and winding entrance passage on the southwest of the fort.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.9.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 18, 2014
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Western ramparts. The distant hillfort of Garn Fawr above Strumble Head can be seen rising far left.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.9.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 18, 2014
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Western ramparts and Carningli Common. The views stretch to Carn Llidi near St David’s.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.9.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 18, 2014
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Upper rampart. The Bronze Age Carn Briw is prominent on the summit to the west.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.9.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 18, 2014
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Looking towards Dinas Island through a gap in the upper rampart.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.9.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 18, 2014
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

The view over the northeastern ramparts. Pentre Ifan is down there somewhere.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.9.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 18, 2014
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Lower Terrace rampart, with Carningli Common over on the right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.9.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 18, 2014
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Northwestern rampart of the lower terrace, looking down on Newport and the Nyfer estuary.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.9.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 18, 2014
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by Kammer

May 2nd 2004: The main entrance to the fort with a random geezer for scale.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Sep 14, 2004
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by Kammer

May 2nd 2004: The southern retaining wall where the rampart is penetrated by the main entrance to the fort. The drystone walling is presumably prehistoric.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Sep 14, 2004
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by Kammer

Taken 2nd May 2004: Looking down over the eastern rampart from the south west corner. The pretty patterns are thought to be the remains of hut foundations and areas of cultivation.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Sep 14, 2004
Image of Carn Ingli Camp (Hillfort) by Kammer

Taken 2nd May 2004: From the south west end of the fort, looking north east along the western side of the rampart.

Image credit: Simon Marshall
Kammer
Kammer Sep 14, 2004

Articles

Carn Ingli Camp

M
mountainman May 26, 2008

I’ve been mapping the “camp” or hillfort for the last 12 month, using a base map from Hogg and also using Google satellite imagery and other published photos. A lot is visible just now, following extensive burning.

My revised map is here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carningli_hillfort

This is a very spectacular and technically sophisticated hillfort, with features similar to Norman motte and bailey castles. The fort is on a rocky ridge, with a ‘village” inside a pronounced defensive embankment at the NE end (the lee side of the mountain) and three connected enclosures or baileys at the SW end. On the SE face of the mountain natural cliffs and scree slopes are used as defences -- and on the NW side substantial defensive embankments have been built. The rocky summits of the mountain are the “motte” -- no doubt used as a last defensive position in case the defences were breached.

The defensive embankments have been slighted -- when and why?

Carn Ingli Camp

Kammer
Kammer Oct 5, 2004

Visited 2nd May 2004: We parked north of Bedd Morris (approximately SN039367) and after a picnic lunch headed of to find the hillfort. The route I’d chosen was based purely on keeping the gaps between the contour lines as small as possible (with Alfie on my back I had a good excuse). It took about an hour to get to the fort, but that was at William’s walking speed.

The fort is an impressive but disorientating jumble of rock. We approached when the cloud was low, so it wasn’t possible to see the summit of the hill even from close up. There is an entrance to the fort, which would have been the best place to get into it, but we only figured this out once we’d clambered over the ramparts at the south end. The terrain inside the fort is tricky, and not recommended for anyone with limited mobility. It was fun to explore, but the drop to the east was significant enough to worry me.

There’s at least one discernable rampart within the boundary of the fort, and something that looks a lot like a hut circle. Outside the boundaries of the fort, especially to the east, are a number of structures that represent huts and areas of cultivation contemporary with the fort. As with everything at Carn Ingli, it’s tricky to figure out what’s what.

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