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Looking NW from the rampart.

The single rock-cut ditch and bank. Looking SW towards the Castlemartin peninsula.

Sheer cliffs fall from the fort to Castles Bay. Dale peninsula on the horizon.

The narrow ridge of rock joining the landward part of the fort to the larger promontory. Traces of a possible medieval castle have been found on the rocky section across the ridge.

Approaching the single rampart from the landward side.

Land- and seascape context for the cliff fort. Sheep Island with Castles Bay fort to the right. St Ann’s Head on the Dale peninsula lies beyond.

The prominent clifftop setting of the fort over on the left, with the Castlemartin peninsula stretching away in the distance.

The clearly defined earthwork seen from the NNW. The intervening ground drops steeply to a stream then climbs again.

Erosion is damaging the southeastern section of the bank, exposing the stone construction.

The strata of the underlying rock can be seen exposed in the ditch.

The northern arc of the single rampart.

Looking from the fort interior over the cliffs forming the western extent of the site.

The single bank and rock-cut ditch on the eastern side of the fort.

Approaching the fort from the east, the only direction where there is no slope or cliffs protecting the site.

The Green Bridge, another amazing natural feature intervisible with the fort (the sloping tip of which can be seen in the background).

Elegug Stacks, a little way west of, and visible from, the fort.

Viewed from the west. The cliffs drop almost 50m to the sea.

Outer defences.

There are some impressive earthworks defending this site.

Looking across the fort interior, while G/F makes a hasty retreat from the high winds and sheer cliffs combination.

This enormous hole right in the heart of the site makes walking around the interior in a high wind feel a bit scary.

Looking out across the lines of defence from the inner rampart.

The inner sets of ramparts, with helpful sheep scale.

No shortage of lines of defence here.

Viewed across Flimston Bay from the next fort westwards, Flimston Bay Camp.

The fort from the NE.

Looking west across Flimston Bay to the next door neighbours, at the much more impressive Flimston Bay Camp.

The cliffs forming the end of the enclosed promontory.

Showing the single rock-cut ditch, curving across from the bottom left corner.

Crockysdam Camp, aka Moody Nose. A single curving rock-cut ditch and low bank cut off the promontory.

The fort from the west, showing the precarious nature of the underlying cliff.

Looking west. There are two further cliff forts in this stretch of coast, but both are hidden behind Mewsford Point.

The inner bank, the highest of the three.

This alarming hole, open to the sea below, is inside the camp itself. Even more alarming when you realise that the whole site is supported by an arch rather than a solid cliff.

Middle rampart.

The ditches have been scooped out of the rock of the headland, with the resulting upcast stone used to form the banks.

The stone construction of the central of the three banks, with the low outer rampart beyond, arcing across the left of the shot.

Buckspool Camp seen from the SE.

The natural setting of the well and chapel is certainly dramatic.

St Govan’s Head, the most southerly point in Pembrokeshire, seen from the well.

The little well house sits rather forlornly in a setting of much greater natural splendour.

There’s an organic feel to the chapel, either it’s grown out of the rock or the rock has grown around it, like a tree trunk around a horseshoe.

Steep steps down. Careful now.

From the safety of the stile into the next field.

Barrow? No barrow here. Moove along (etc).

The occupies the central area of the steep-sided promontory ahead/above.

Looking along the narrow strip between outer and middle ramparts. If this was ever a ditch, it’s long been filled in.

The ‘middle’ rampart of the triple western defences.

Looking from the inner rampart across the wide berm to the outer ramparts.

This low, elongated mound is in the middle of the interior.