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Castle Park Defended Enclosure, Warren; Merrion Camp

Defended Enclosure

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Castle Park Defended Enclosure, Warren; Merrion Camp stands in Pembrokeshire as an Iron Age defended enclosure, its earthworks still marking the boundary between human ambition and wild terrain. The name suggests a castle never built, a park imagined before parks existed, and a camp where people watched the sky for danger or opportunity. That much is known. The rest belongs to the land, which keeps its own counsel and gives up only what it chooses.
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Castle Park Defended Enclosure, Warren; Merrion Camp as Defended Enclosure from the Iron Age period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Built during the Iron Age, Castle Park Defended Enclosure, Warren; Merrion Camp is an ancient hillfort or defensive earthwork, significant for its role in early Welsh settlement patterns and territorial defense.

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