Buckspool Promontory Fort / The Castle

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Buckspool promontory fort, also known as The Castle, is a later prehistoric site situated on the south coast of Pembrokeshire within the Castlemartin Range MOD site, a kilometre west of St Govan’s chapel. It has previously been subject to stone robbing and damage, and is under threat from coastal erosion.

The site includes three ditch and rampart features, with an external spread of limestone outcropping which may have worked as another line of natural defences. Inside there is an impressive natural limestone blow-hole, which would have been present in prehistory.

The entranceway is marked with two ditch terminals. There also appears to be the footprint of a stone building, perhaps a tower, although the site has been significantly disturbed by later activity and so positively identifying prehistoric phasing is challenging. Inside the fort there are the remains of multiple roundhouse structures, suggesting domestic use of the inner fort.

Finds of pottery from the site include sherds of Black Burnished Ware (2nd / 3rd century), oxidized ware, and an Oxford colour coat mortarium rim (probable 4th century).

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