Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bron-y-Gaer Camp
Meidrim, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Hillfort
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 8 July 1951
- Community
- Meidrim
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.84614, -4.45929
- SAM number
- CM148
- Cadw record number
- 2141
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a hillfort, which probably dates to the Iron Age period (c. 800 BC - AD 74, the Roman conquest of Wales). Hillforts are usually Ilocated on hilltops and surrounded by a single or multiple earthworks of massive proportions. Hillforts must have formed symbols of power within the landscape, while their function may have had as much to do with ostentation and display as defence. Bron-y-Gaer Camp is defended by scarp giving an external bank of 10ft max. on south, and on west by rounded bank 5ft above outside and 2ft above interior of camp. The scarp on south carries on westwards, apparently to form an annexe.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of later prehistoric defensive organisation and settlement. The site forms an important element within the wider later prehistoric context and within the surrounding landscape. The site is well preserved and retains considerable archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of evidence relating to chronology, building techniques and functional detail.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- PantegDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cefn-crwthDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty PenrheolDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont FelinfachTransport1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.