Revealing Episode FOUR of 20 Fascinating, some never seen before, Iron Age Hillforts in West Wales

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"20 Fascinating Hillforts of West Wales" Episode Four"
Many of these Welsh Hillforts are largely unknown and are not accessible or viewable to the public. Unlike some of the more iconic and accessible Hillforts in eastern Britain. So let us introduce you to some of the Iron Age gems from one of the remotest areas in southern Britain!
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A Dronescaping Britain Production
Directed and Produced by Steve Spon
for
Diamond Seeds Media Productions
Narrated by Ella Jo and Dr Gaz
Flying Camera: Steve Spon
Film and Sound Editor : Steve Spon
Graphics: Dr Gaz
Research: Steve Spon, Ella Jo
Copy: Ella Jo, Dr Gaz
Music: Steve Spon for Nostramus, Delphine & Wylaut
Sound Design: Delphine & Wylaut, Nostramus
Giant Sketch Artist : Suhendri
Photography: Ella Jo, Steve Spon
Ai Artwork : Dall-E
Resources :
Google Earth
Ordnance Survey
Gary Lock, Atlas of Hillforts
Lidar: LIDAR Composite First Return DSM 2020 - 1m (retired) Open Government Licence, 2020
Plan of Foel Drygarn Hillfort made by the Geography Department of Portsmouth Polytechnic, from original aerial surveys by RCAHMW, scale 1:1000. Coflein
Special Thanks :
Audrey Peebles and Bob Marshall for Fife Coast and Countryside Trust
Dr Toby Driver ‘s informative books “Hillforts of Cardigan Bay” and “Hillforts of Iron Age Wales”
Stuart Fry, Drystone structure specialist
Martin Price for info on the Garn Goch Forts
Penparcau Pen Dinas Project
Atlas of Hillforts : School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Dyfed Archaeology Trust
Cherish, Climate Change and Coastal Heritage
Archwilio of RCAHMW
Brian John’s “Cnapan”
Special Special Thanks :
Ella Jo & Dr Gaz
Inspiration :
James Dyer, Professor Mike Parker Pearson, top neighbours and fantastic Archaeologists
Dr Toby Driver
Shouts to :
Greg ‘Spyke’ Howes, Jon Murphy, Belinda and the Megaliths, Pembrokeshire Coastal Park, National Trust. Windswept Robbie, Danny, DJI for creating such a cool flying camera
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Stuy of West Wales Hillforts Citations
Hadrianus Maiden Castle Multivallate Hillfort
Hadrianus1959, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommon..., via Wikimedia Commons
Badbury Rings Shapwick Dorset
Simaron, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommon..., via Wikimedia Commons
Chalk pit
Nigel Mykura / Chalk pit near Muckleford
Ox Pulling Sled
Jackson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chariot Burial
Gastebois & Fourdrignier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ancient Aliens
Luca Giarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommon... via Wikimedia Commons
All Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic
Further information on the life of Hillforts
museum.wales/m...
Further reading:
Toby Driver: The Hillforts of Cardigan Bay
Toby Driver: The Iron Age Hillforts of Wales

[@diamondseeds2107]

Great stuff, can't wait!!!

[@gerald1589]

Reading your inspiration part, my archaeology teacher was James Dyer . Back in the 80s . And he wrote books on hill forts . Good Times. Thank you for this programme.

[@DronescapingBritain]

James Dyer was my Schoolteacher and then later he was my Dads Tutor at Putteridge, He roped everybody around in to volunteer at his digs. One year it was Ravensburgh Castle just outside Hexton and I spent a day or two with my dead helping out. Ha had excavated one of the entrances and the scale of the banks and ditches was awesome for me as a child to see. He was a very inspirational figure.

[@eurosjones2554]

Excellent photography. Small points:- 1. PEN-Y-FFRWD-LLWYD, 2, CAER MAURRICE (or Morris) .Please read Samuel Meyricks book on Cardiganshire- he states that this is Caer Maurrice. Cadwgan was an encampment nearby. The tithe map shows the farm of this name as CAEDWGAN- not caerdwgan or Caer caedwgan. The gaer seems to have been renamed recently as Caer Cadwgan. To the local people , in recent times,it seems to have only been known as Y GAER. Below this is a stone that has been named Llech Cynon- a burial stone with the person called Cynon buried there as he was the one who slayed the soldier buried under the Hirfaen Gwyddog (standing stone)- possibly Irish.

[@DronescapingBritain]

Thank you for your feedback, we tried very hard to get the research right. I have seen the film now and realize the banner title to " PEN-Y-FFRWD-LWYD" is misspelt , for that I apologize. However I think the map spelling and male narration is correct . I will put a correction into the subtext. Trouble is that everybody calls their fort 'Y Gaer' (The Fort) at one time in history we didn't have surnames, so in a complex world we do need to hone identity. I would love a copy of Samuel Meyricks "The History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan" but I would need a small mortgage to obtain a copy! I think we got a lot of our information from Hanes Ceredigion and Cellan History which I assume sourced originally from Meyricks book? There was also a fascinating thesis someone had written about Cairns in the south east Ceredigion borderlands which also had information on the Hillfort and locality. I think we mention the Llech Cynon as Cynon's grave, although we didn't see the story with Hirfaen Gwyddog, thank you for highlighting that! Funnily enough I was up near there this afternoon, I would like to try and locate Llech Cynon which apparently upstream a little and fallen, when the weather becomes dryer I will return. I did learn one thing from this afternoons visit that on the road above and from a point called Cefnbryn you can see Castell Perth Mawr in the distance and directly in between lies the Caer Cadwgan Hillfort. There is a direct line of sight over some distance between one and the other hillforts. I notice this a lot on these west Wales Hillforts.