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Plainsfield Camp
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0454
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0454 (454)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Over Stowey
- National Grid reference
- ST18433621
- Latitude
- 51.11929
- Longitude
- -3.16687
- Altitude
- 235 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (East); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (1982); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007669
- HER
- Somerset 11128
- National record
- record ST 13 NE 17; monument 389501
- Wikidata
- Q31115657
Sources
References
- Burrow, I. 1981. Hillfort and hill-top settlement in Somerset in the first to eighth centuries AD, BAR British Series 1(1974) - 91, 243-44.
- Burrow, I. 1983. Over Stowey, Cockercombe Castle ST18423614, in eds I. Burrow, S. Minnitt and B. Murless, Somerset Archaeology 1982, Proc Somerset Archaeolog Natur Hist Soc, 127, 16.