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Ruborough Camp
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0450
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0450 (450)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broomfield
- National Grid reference
- ST 2270 3350
- Latitude
- 51.09609
- Longitude
- -3.10463
- Altitude
- 205 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (East); In-turned (East); Passage-way/Corridor (East); Recesses/Guard Chambers (East); Simple Gap (West); Outworks (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007670
- HER
- Somerset 10228
- National record
- record ST 23 SW 1; monument 191142
- Wikidata
- Q31115644
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 68-69.
- Gray, H.St.G. 1903. Ruborough Camp, in the parish of Broomfield, Somerset, Proc Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist Soc 49, 173-82.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 483, London: St Catherine Press.
- Waite, V. 1964. Portrait of the Quantocks. London: Robert Hale.