More information : SW 58343565 Castle Kayle O.E
SW o58333569 Cromlech O.E. (Site of) T.I. (1)
At Castle Cayle there are two circular enclosures, each consisting of a rampart and outer ditch. The `Little Round` is some 40 yards in diameter, and the `Great Round` about 60. The latter lies to the W. of the former and is on somewhat higher ground.
These `rounds` are so close to one another that at one point the ditches unite (2)
By 1861, the ditch between the two enclosures had been filled up, as had the ditch nearest the road. Much of the earthwork was levelled to make a garden for a newly-erected cottage at the roadside. The cottage-builder stated that in building the ditch on the N.side, he found a miniature cromlech enclosing a space about a foot square and 6" deep, and containing ashes. The cromlech stones had been subjected to a strong fire (3)
Castle Kayle - Multi-vallate Hill-forte of less than 3 acres. (4)
The major earthwork has a well preserved rampart on the W, and on the S.W. where it is augmented by an outer ditch, now used as a fieldway. Elsewhere the rampart has been entirely destroyed although the ditch survives on the S. and E. The lesser enclosure is represented by a scarp centred at SW58433567. Surveyed at 1/2500. Its non defensive situation,size and shape, are more typical of an I.A. round than a hillfort. It is not multivallate and
the smaller enclosure was evidently simply annexed to the larger one. (5)
Listed under Rounds. (6)
Scheuled under Camps and Settlements. (7)
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