![]() At first I found lots of stones all seemingly scattered around at random, with nothing obvious representing a circle. I head down to the west and back to the lower track in order to find the Cors Y Carneddau circle. It is situated in parkland, just to the southwest of the more impressive Blaise Castle. Īt the northeastern end of the ridge that is Kings Weston Hill, now in the northwestern suburbs of Bristol, is to be found the remains of an iron age hillfort and farmstead. People have been living and working on this hilltop ridge since neolithic times, and it is thought that this earthwork is some sort of stockpound. Some of these clumps hide the remains of several.Ī few hundred metres west along the hilltop ridge from the Kings Weston Hillfort can be seen the remains of a large circular earthwork, of unsure date. Walk several hundred metres west along the hilltop ridge from the Kings Weston Hillfort, past the large circular earthwork, across the roman road and its earthwork bank, and the open grassland of the hilltop now has several bushy clumps dotted around. This is one of three iron age forts here probably guarding a ford crossing of the river Avon at the bottom of the Avon Gorge. Iron age promontary hillfort on a spur overlooking the Avon Gorge from the high plateau at the western side of the Gorge, now a part of the large Leigh Woods nature reserve. Now mostly destroyed, with the western end of the Clifton Bridge and massive houses built all over i. The Burwalls Camp hillfort is one of three iron age forts here probably guarding a ford crossing of the river Avon at the bottom of the Avon Gorge, below where is now the Clifton Suspension Bridge. There's a lot of history to the area - the. As such has been an important strategic place since history began. ![]() ![]() Īncient woodland covered limestone hill, now a nature reserve, to the north of Portishead, beside the shipping channel into Portbury and Avonmouth docks, and the river Avon up to Bristol. The stone monument marks the closest place on a UK coast which large ships pass. Viewed with Moelfre and the other mountains behind it, it reminds me very much of the chains of volcano.Ī nice stone with many fossilised shells to be seen within it, stands strategically at Battery Point, Portishead, as the Seafarers Memorial Stone, a memorial to seafarers of the west country. There is the one large cairn within the open access land which looks like a cartoon volcano, conical, steep sides and a crater in the top. Last on my itinerary for today are the Graig Lwyd Cairns. ![]()
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