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Dowsborough Camp
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0434
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0434 (434)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Holford
- National Grid reference
- ST16023912
- Latitude
- 51.14511
- Longitude
- -3.20197
- Altitude
- 325 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Passage-way/Corridor (East); Recesses/Guard Chambers (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1989); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Earthwork Survey (1999-2005); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010494
- HER
- Somerset 33306
- National record
- record ST 13 NE 2; monument 189456
- Wikidata
- Q31115502
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 80-81.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 492, London: St Catherine Press.