Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wern Camp
Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Promontory Fort - inland
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 14 March 1951
- Community
- Puncheston
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.93491, -4.88447
- SAM number
- PE237
- Cadw record number
- 3717
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 defended enclosure, which probably dates to the Iron Age period (c. 800 BC - AD 74, the Roman conquest of Wales), and which is located on the edge of the Afon Anghof valley. The steep valley sides fall around 25m and provide adequate defence on the north and west. South and east the land rises gently away and here defence was provided by a single semi-circular bank and ditch of around 80m long. The bank stands about 1m above the interior and up to 1.3m above the ditch. There is an east facing entrance near the break of slope, the interior measuring c. 55m east to west by 40m north to south.
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
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- Castell MaelRingworkunder 1 mi
- Mynydd Castlebythe Ring BarrowRing Barrowunder 1 mi
- White HartDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.