CAERFAI, PROMONTORY FORT

Site Details

NPRN
305396
Map Reference
SM72SE
Grid Reference
SM76282398
Unitary (Local) Authority
Pembrokeshire
Old County
Pembrokeshire
Community
St Davids and the Cathedral Close
Type of Site
PROMONTORY FORT
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Iron Age

Site Description

Caerfai Promontory Fort consists of a crescent of three to four lines of banks and ditches, about 100m in length, having what appears to be a former entrance gap, about 30m across, on the east, blocked by two lesser banks, the whole set across the northern, landward approaches to a 45m wide neck of land that opens onto a roughly 100m east-west by 50m cliff-girt promontory; emplacements for circular structures have been reported but not confirmed in the interior and there is said to be a good natural, small-boat harbour to the south.

(source OS 495 card; SM72SE9)

RCAHMW AP945018/50-52; 965016/69

J.Wiles 12.09.2003