Location
- Atlas number
- EN0446 (446)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Milborne Port
- National Grid reference
- ST670206
- Latitude
- 50.98379
- Longitude
- -2.47152
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 8.81 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1980); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1939-1945)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016738
- HER
- Somerset 54262
- National record
- record ST 62 SE 5; monument 199711
- Wikidata
- Q31115637
Sources
References
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 527, London: St Catherine Press.