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Ham Hill
Somerset, England · Atlas EN0448
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0448 (448)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Montacute
- National Grid reference
- ST484165
- Latitude
- 50.94619
- Longitude
- -2.73577
- Altitude
- 89.6 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 84 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); In-turned (North west); In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Other (1980); Excavation (1983); Other (2009); Geophysical Survey (2011); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1923-1930); Other (1975-1997); Earthwork Survey (1990-1997); Geophysical Survey (1992-2011); Excavation (1994-2003); Excavation
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003678
- HER
- Somerset 55103
- National record
- record ST 41 NE 12; monument 193165
- Wikidata
- Q31115638
Sources
References
- Anon. 2013. Bones to unpick. Ham Hill, Somerset. Current Archaeol, 2013, 40-1.
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 94-95.
- Cambridge Archaeological Unit - see http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/final-excavations-underway-at-ham-hill (accessed March 2016).
- Gray, H. St George. 1926. Excavations at Ham Hill, South Somerset, Part III, Proc Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist Soc, 82, 83-107.
- Sharples, N., Evans, C., Slater, A., Payne, A. and Linford, N. 2012. Ham and mustard. Brit Archaeol, 123, 34-9.
- Smith, G. 1990. Excavations at Ham Hill, 1983, Proc Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist Soc, 134, 27-47.