Pen y Gaer Iron Age hillfort, North Wales: view SE over chevaux-de-frise defences (small upright stones) outside W entrance through 2 stone ramparts.

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Pen y Gaer Iron Age hillfort, North Wales: view SE over chevaux-de-frise defences (small upright stones) outside the entrances through two stone ramparts on the W. Up to three ramparts (stone, and banks & ditches) enclose an area of two hectares. There are hut platforms within the fort and patches of chevaux-de-frise defences outside the S ramparts and the original W entrance.

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Location: Pen y Gaer Hillfort, Llanbedr y Cennin, Conwy, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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