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Cae Ddunod Camp is a prehistoric hillfort located in Wales, protected as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference DE076. The site occupies a commanding position over landscape underlain by Wenlock Rocks, a hard sandstone and conglomerate bedrock formed during the Silurian period. This durable geology would have provided the camp's builders with substantial stone for defensive ramparts and internal structures. The Wenlock formation's resistance to weathering means that any stone-built elements from the hillfort's occupation would have survived millennia of exposure with minimal degradation, preserving evidence of the camp's construction methods.
The hillfort represents settlement activity during the prehistoric period, when defended upland sites served as focal points for community organisation, storage and protection across Wales. The site's position on this outcropping geology would have offered both defensive advantage and practical quarrying opportunities for its occupants. The preservation of such monuments within the Wenlock bedrock landscape provides crucial evidence for understanding settlement patterns and fortification strategies in Iron Age and earlier Welsh prehistory.
Cae Ddunod Camp is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE076. View the official record →
Cae Ddunod Camp is a prehistoric hillfort located in Wales, protected as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference DE076.
Cae Ddunod Camp dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a hillfort. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cae Ddunod Camp is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is DE076.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ffridd Brynhelen Enclosures & Fields (1.8 km), Hafotty Wen Ring Cairn (1.9 km), Tyddyn Tudur Enclosure (2.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Cae Ddunod Camp's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cae Ddunod Camp stands on Wenlock Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.