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Curdon Wood Camp
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0437
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0437 (437)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stogumber
- National Grid reference
- ST10223851
- Latitude
- 51.13874
- Longitude
- -3.28471
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.82 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006158
- HER
- Somerset 34023
- National record
- record ST 13 NW 1; monument 189556
- Wikidata
- Q31115543
Sources
References
- Burrow, I. 1981. Hillfort and hill-top settlement in Somerset in the first to eighth centuries AD, BAR British Series 1, 91, 266-67.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 479-80, London: St Catherine Press.