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Clatworthy Camp
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0436
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0436 (436)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clatworthy
- National Grid reference
- ST046315
- Latitude
- 51.07481
- Longitude
- -3.36317
- Altitude
- 285 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (1998); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006149
- HER
- Somerset 33467
- National record
- record ST 03 SW 4; monument 188442
- Wikidata
- Q31115521
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 78-79.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 489-90, London: St Catherine Press.