| Ddisgrifiad / Description | This is a rocky peak with a very broken and irregular top, rising through 1028 feet above sea level. On it stood a small fort, the ramparts of which are now barely traceable owing to robbing for the construction of modern walls. In some places they have been completely removed and in others rebuilt, so some details of the original plan are doubtful. The highest part of the site, which is protected by precipitous slopes, except on the north side, was fortified by a stone wall about seven feet thick, to which a ditch was added on the north side where the defences block the only easy natural approach to the summit. Access was from the south east through a natural cleft at the top of which some thick walls of uncertain date may be the remains of a defended gateway. A second wall encloses a larger space at a level about thirty or forty feet lower. There were three entrances through it, each at the top of a natural slope, which seems to have been improved artificially. In each, one side of the gateway was formed by a natural cliff. The south east and south west entrances are completely ruined. On the north side two or three courses survive of the curved outer face of the east side of the passage. Traces of a third rampart, which seems never to have been carried round the whole circuit, are visible to the north and south.
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