Burry Holms
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Burry Holms is a small land near tidal island in the Bristol Channel on the west side of the Gower Peninsula in South Wales .
The island is about 400 m long and on average 200 m wide in an east-west direction and is located at the north end of the 4 km long sandy beach of Rhossili Bay and west of Broughton and the smaller Blue Pool Bay . The name has no known Welsh equivalent (Welsh “Ynys Lanwol” means “tidal island”).
9,000 years ago Burry Holms was about 19.0 km from the sea and was inhabited by Mesolithic hunters . Feuerstein tools provided evidence of this in 1919. Since then, charred hazelnut shells , charcoal, and tools made from wood and bone have also been found. The 1998 excavation revealed that Burry Holms was used as a seasonal Mesolithic habitat. In the Iron Age , a 20,000 m² Promontory Fort was built on the island, which reached a height of 30 meters . In the Middle Ages there was a monastery on Burry Holms.
Cloves or light carnations grow on Burry Holms in summer . The island is also visited by shell collectors.
See also
Web links
- Burry Holmes on a page of the BBC
- Excavation finds from the island
- Images on geograph.org.uk
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 33 " N , 4 ° 18 ′ 46" W.