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Deborah's Hole Camp is a prehistoric promontory fort located on the Welsh coast and designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument under the reference GM128. The site comprises defensive earthworks that exploit the natural topography of a coastal promontory, a characteristic defensive strategy employed during the Iron Age and potentially earlier periods. The fort's physical form demonstrates the strategic positioning of settlement and defensive structures to command views of the surrounding landscape and coastal approaches. Such promontory forts represent an important category of Iron Age fortification in Wales, serving functions related to settlement, control of resources, and territorial assertion during the later prehistoric period.
Deborah's Hole Camp is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM128. View the official record →
Deborah's Hole Camp is a prehistoric promontory fort located on the Welsh coast and designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument under the reference GM128.
Deborah's Hole Camp dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a promontory fort - coastal. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Deborah's Hole 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 GM128.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cave 40m SE of Deborah's Hole (0.2 km), Horse Cliff Camp (0.5 km), Paviland Camp (0.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Deborah's Hole 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.
Deborah's Hole Camp stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.