Location
- Atlas number
- EN0452 (452)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cannington
- National Grid reference
- ST247405
- Latitude
- 51.15872
- Longitude
- -3.07820
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.1 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Excavation (1905); Excavation (1913); Other (1980); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1962-1963)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006225
- HER
- Somerset 10439
- National record
- record ST 24 SW 6; monument 191244
- Wikidata
- Q31115647
Sources
References
- Anon 1906. Note, Saga Book of the Viking Club 5, 47-8.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 474-75, London: St Catherine Press.
- Rahtz, P. 1969. Cannington Hillfort 1963, Proc Somerset Archaeol Nat Hist Soc, 113, 56-68.