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Pierce Wood Camps is a prehistoric hillfort located in Wales, occupying a naturally commanding position above the surrounding landscape. The site sits upon Dinantian bedrock of limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks, geological formations that have shaped the local terrain since the Mississippian period. This solid foundation would have provided both defensive advantages and practical building material for the hillfort's construction and occupation.
The monument comprises multiple defensive banks and ditches characteristic of Iron Age hillforts, features that exploit the site's elevated topography to maximize its defensive capability. The earthwork remains survive as prominent landscape features, their form shaped by both prehistoric construction and subsequent centuries of land use and natural processes. The limestone bedrock beneath the site naturally exposed in places, creating additional defensive features that early occupants would have integrated into their fortifications.
Pierce Wood Camps is protected by Cadw, the Welsh heritage preservation organisation, recognising its importance as evidence of prehistoric settlement and territorial control. The site remains a significant archaeological resource, containing within its earthworks and surrounding soils the physical record of Iron Age community life in Wales. Its survival as an upstanding monument allows visitors and researchers to understand the scale and sophisticated defensive planning of prehistoric Welsh communities.
Pierce Wood Camps is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference MM020. View the official record →
Pierce Wood Camps is a prehistoric hillfort located in Wales, occupying a naturally commanding position above the surrounding landscape. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference MM020.
Pierce Wood Camps dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a hillfort. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Pierce Wood Camps 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 MM020.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Crick Moated Site (6.9 km), Crick Medieval House (6.9 km), Crick Round Barrow (7.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Pierce Wood Camps'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.
Pierce Wood Camps stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.