What is recorded here
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Pen-y-Gaer, Bank Green Grove as Defended Enclosure; Hillfort 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.
Pen-y-Gaer, Bank Green Grove is a hillfort, likely dating to the Iron Age, though it may have been reused in the early medieval period as a defensive or agricultural site. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy lore, and similar structures in Wales are sometimes linked to legends of hidden otherworldly inhabitants.
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