The Bulwarks, Porthkerry

The Bulwarks, Porthkerry is a promontory fort in Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, on the southern coast of Wales overlooking the Bristol Channel [1]. It probably dates to the Iron Age and continued to be occupied during the Roman period in Britain [1]. The fort is on the end of a spur that faces west and overlooked the Porthkerry creek, now silted up [1]. The ramparts enclose an area of about 4 hectares [1]. The defence consisted of three close-set banks separated by ditches [1]. Limited excavations indicate that the Bulwarks fort was occupied from the Iron Age into the Roman era [1]. In 1968 F. L. Davies excavated the site for the Department of the Environment [1]. He found traces of three rectangular buildings just inside the innermost west rampart [1].