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King's Castle
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0440
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0440 (440)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wiveliscombe
- National Grid reference
- ST096282
- Latitude
- 51.04596
- Longitude
- -3.29099
- Altitude
- 162 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Over-lapping (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- human bones and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016498
- HER
- Somerset 43792
- National record
- record ST 02 NE 4; monument 188200
- Wikidata
- Q31115581
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 98-99.
- Gray, H.St.G. and Mattingley, H. 1946. A hoard of late Roman coins on Castle Hill, Wiveliscombe, 1946, Proc Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist Soc, 92, 65-7.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 505, London: St Catherine Press.