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Trendle Ring
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0433
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0433 (433)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bicknoller
- National Grid reference
- ST11813935
- Latitude
- 51.14654
- Longitude
- -3.26220
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Outworks (North east); Oblique (South east); Over-lapping (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken, heather moorland, and heath
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008249
- HER
- Somerset 33201
- National record
- record ST 13 NW 3; monument 189562
- Wikidata
- Q31115493
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 102-103.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 506, London: St Catherine Press.