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Westwood
Somerset, England · Atlas EN0447
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0447 (447)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Somerton
- National Grid reference
- ST46062963
- Latitude
- 51.06340
- Longitude
- -2.77115
- Altitude
- 72 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and human bones
- Investigations
- Other (1990); Geophysical Survey (1993); Excavation (1945-1946)
Identifiers
- HER
- Somerset 54484
- National record
- record ST 42 NE 28; monument 193579
- Wikidata
- Q31115535
Sources
References
- Aston, M. and Stokes, P. 1990. Somerton Park, Park, ST459296, in eds C.J. Webster and R.A. Croft, Somerset Archaeology 1990, Proc Somerset Archaeol and Natur Hist Soc, 134, 215-16.
- Geophysical Surveys of Bradford 1993. Westwood Fort/geophysical report, 93/19, National Monument Record Centre.
- Riley, H. 1993. Somerton, Westwood, ST45992959, in eds C.J. Webster and R.A. Croft, Somerset Archaeology 1993, Proc Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist Soc, 137,137.