Foel dry yarn
Foel Drygarn (also called Foel Trigarn or Foel Drigarn) is a hillfort on a summit of the Presili Hills west of Crymych in Pembrokeshire in Wales .
On the summit is an Iron Age hill settlement with traces of houses and three Bronze Age cairns that gave the mountain (Moel Drygarn German "three cairns" ) its name. The 1.2 hectare Hillfort consists of a D-shaped wall and an additional lower fortification on the north and west sides. It consists of a dam made of stones and earth without a ditch. It is assumed that the system was built in several phases. Pottery shards and pearls from the iron to Roman times were found.
Foel Drygarn is a Scheduled Monument .
Trivia
The poet Waldo Williams (1904–1971) quotes the summit in his famous poem "Preseli"
Web links
literature
- James Dyer: Hillforts of England and Wales . 1999, ISBN 0747801800 .
- James Forde-Johnston: Hillforts of the Iron Age in England and Wales: A Survey of the Surface Evidence . Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 1976.
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 12.7 " N , 4 ° 40 ′ 59.9" W.