Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Linney Head Camp
Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Promontory Fort - coastal
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 2 July 1958
- Community
- Castlemartin
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.62025, -5.05171
- SAM number
- PE316
- Cadw record number
- 2706
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 43). The enclosure is located on a narrow coastal promontory above the sea that marks part of the defensive circuit. The construction of one or more ramparts placed across the neck of the promontory divide it from the mainland. Linney Head Camp is defended by a double rampart and ditch, with entrance in middle of the defences. A work perhaps of two periods as a faint bank and ditch within the present more obvious defences may mark and earlier camp. The entrance has elaborate features.
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, layout, 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
- Linney Deserted Medieval VillageDeserted Medieval Villageunder 1 mi
- Linney Head TumulusRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Linney Tobruk SheltersAnti Invasion Defence Site1 mi
- Bulliber Hill CampEnclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.