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The southeastern corner of the fort, where natural terrace joins man-made bank (and silted up ditch).

The southern flank of the fort. This section is an enhancement of natural terracing rather than a purely man-made earthwork.

Hinton Hill fort from the northeast. You can just make out the northeastern arc of the rampart as a darker line crossing the field in front of the trees, but the section north of the road is very much reduced by the plough.

Looking across the berm towards the inner bank from the outer.

The lower but still impressive outer bank, south side of the fort.

Inner bank and ditch, south side.

G/F provides scale for the outer bank. The inner bank is substantially taller.

The southern earthworks. The break in the outer bank is not an original feature.

The non-aligned eastern double entrance.

The eastern double entrances to the fort. In fine IA style they are not directly aligned, as can be seen from the curve of the track between the two.

The powerful eastern defences. The Cotswold plateau doesn’t drop noticeably to the east, so the defences on all sides but the west are particularly strong.

At the northeast corner.

Northern earthworks: outer bank, berm, ditch, inner bank. Impressive.

Horton Camp, centre, from the south.

Landscape context for the shadowed monument, from the opposite headland to the west.

Manorbier Bay and the south Pembrokeshire Coast stretch away, but the quoit appears to face resolutely away from the sea.

At this time of year the Quoit is in shadow for most of the day.

Approaching the Quoit on the coast path, looking towards Manorbier.

Skomar Camp from the southwest.

The western end of the rampart has now crumbled away into the sea, leaving a cross-section of construction exposed.

Looking inland across the rampart.

The overgrown single rampart.

Looking across the scrubby and overgrown interior. Caldey Island/Ynys Byr can be seen on the horizon.

The western flank drops away in a sheer cliff.

The overgrown single rampart, at its western end.

Skomar Camp from the NE. The tip of Old Castle Head, the next fort along the coast, can be seen in the background.

Old Castle Head, the far left headland. The fort is sadly inaccessible due to being, at the time of writing, in one of the most active defence ranges in the UK.

Old Castle Head is the furthest point away, seen from Lydstep Point. The extraordinary cliff in the foreground is Whitesheet Rock, stratified limestone seabed tilted up to vertical.

Caldey Island/Ynys Byr from Lydstep Point. The barrow is on the highest point on the island.

The modern shoreline near the footprints. This might have been a good place to trap game flushed from the low-lying forest, the cliffs acting as a natural corral. Caldey Island can be seen to the right, location for a number of caves used during the same Mesolithic period.

The Mesolithic footprints (human and animal) were found bottom left.

Lydstep Haven from Proud Giltar after sunset. In the Mesolithic this would have been a view of trees instead of water.

Caldey Island/Ynys Byr at sunset. The round barrow is on the highest point of the island, over to the right in this picture taken from the cliffs west of Giltar Point on the mainland.

Context for the two Mesolithic caves and later Bronze Age round barrow on Caldey Island (with Tenby Castle in right middle distance).

Looking along the northern bank.

Looking across the interior of the settlement.

The site is very waterlogged.

Double earthwork on the northwestern side of the site.

Southern arc of the bank.

Gap in the southern arc of the bank.

Stone protrudes through the turf on the western side of the earthwork.

Approaching from Bryn Gwyn standing stones.

The surrounding growth is returning with a vengeance.

Northeast stone.

SW stone.

Arriving at the stones from the southwest.

Rainy day Bodowyr.