Location
- Atlas number
- EN0439 (439)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Norton Fitzwarren
- National Grid reference
- ST19622626
- Latitude
- 51.03001
- Longitude
- -3.14765
- Altitude
- 50 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
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 4.5 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (North); Hollow Way (South east); Hollow Way (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1908); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1968-1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008467
- HER
- Somerset 43399
- National record
- record ST 12 NE 1; monument 189007
- Wikidata
- Q31115557
Sources
References
- Ellis, P. 1989. Norton Fitzwarren Hillfort: a report on the excavations by Nancy and Philip Langmaid between 1968 and 1971, Proc Somerset Archaeol and Natur Hist Soc, 133, 1-74.
- Gray, H.St.G., 1908. Excavations at Norton Camp, near Taunton, Proc Somerset Archaeol and Natur Hist Soc, 54, 131-43.
- Langmaid, P. 1968. Norton Camp excavation, Proc Somerset Archaeol and Natur Hist Soc, 112, 107-08.