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St Lawrence Camp
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 2383 Trust : Dyfed Community : Hayscastle Unitary authority : Pembrokeshire NGR : SM93182771 Site Type (preferred type first) : Iron Age Promontory Fort Status : Scheduled Monument
Summary : St Lawrence Camp is an inland promontory fort lying at 65m above sea level naturally defended by steep slopes to the north, east and west that fall away by 20m to valley bottoms. Land rises gently away from the site to the west. The roughly triangular internal area measures c. 40m E-W and 35m N-S. A rampart runs across the neck of the promontory for c.50m. The bank is 2m above the interior of the fort and 2.3m above the ditch. A low counterscarp bank runs along the outer lip of the ditch. The whole of this defensive system is c.15m wide. There is a much-altered entrance at the southern end of this defence. Cadw's field monument warden noted two further lines of bank and ditch outside the main defence, while Crossley has this as a bivallate fort.
The interior is under unmanaged deciduous woodland. The outer earthworks have been damaged by cattle trampling in the past.
K Murphy 6 October 2006 - compiled from several sources.
Description : St Lawrence Camp is an inland promontory fort lying at 65m above sea level naturally defended by steep slopes to the north, east and west that fall away by 20m to valley bottoms. Land rises gently away from the site to the west. The roughly triangular internal area measures c. 40m E-W and 35m N-S. A rampart runs across the neck of the promontory for c.50m. The bank is 2m above the interior of the fort and 2.3m above the ditch. A low counterscarp bank runs along the outer lip of the ditch. The whole of this defensive system is c.15m wide. There is a much-altered entrance at the southern end of this defence. Cadw's field monument warden noted two further lines of bank and ditch outside the main defence, while Crossley has this as a bivallate fort.
The interior is under unmanaged deciduous woodland. The outer earthworks have been damaged by cattle trampling in the past.
K Murphy 6 October 2006 - compiled from several sources.
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Events : 66933 : ST LAWRENCE CAMP, FIELD OBSERVATION, 1973 (year : 1973) 85840 : ST LAWRENCE CAMP, FIELD OBSERVATION, 1981 (year : 1981) 89986 : ST LAWRENCE CAMP, FIELD OBSERVATION, 1991 (year : 1991) 91499 : ST LAWRENCE CAMP, FIELD OBSERVATION, 2002 (year : 2002) 102589 : PRISKILLY TYCANT WATER MAIN RENEWAL SCHEME, WELSH HOOK, PEMBROKESHIR:E ARCHAEOLOGICA WATCHING BRIEFL (year : 2012) 103698 : HEARTLANDS HUB HERITAGE AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AUDIT: PART C HAYSCASTLE (year : 2012) 56594 : PREHISTORIC DEFENDED ENCLOSURES: PEMBROKESHIRE (year : 2007)
