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Brean Down Camp
Somerset, England · Atlas EN0449
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0449 (449)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brean
- National Grid reference
- ST2979058850
- Latitude
- 51.32435
- Longitude
- -3.00902
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1965); Excavation (1974); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008211
- HER
- Somerset 10115
- National record
- record ST 25 NE 1; monument 191302
- Wikidata
- Q31115640
Sources
References
- Burrow, I.G.C. 1976. Brean Down hillfort, Somerset, 1974, Proc Univ Bristol Spaeolog Soc, 14, (2), 141-54.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 472, London: St Catherine Press.