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Rooks Castle
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0451
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0451 (451)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broomfield
- National Grid reference
- ST253323
- Latitude
- 51.08508
- Longitude
- -3.06792
- Altitude
- 176 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark 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
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (2004)
Identifiers
- HER
- Somerset 10241
- National record
- record ST 23 SE 14; monument 191129
- Wikidata
- Q31115571
Sources
References
- Riley, H. 2004. Rooks Castle, Broomfield, Somerset. Swindon: English Heritage.