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Orchard Wood
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0455
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0455 (455)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Orchard Portman
- National Grid reference
- ST249203
- Latitude
- 50.97713
- Longitude
- -3.07113
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- counterscarp bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1999-2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Somerset 11685
- National record
- record ST 22 SW 119; monument 619453
- Wikidata
- Q31115602
Sources
References
- Clements, C.F. 1986. Orchard Portman, Orchard Wood, ST250203, in ed, E. Dennison, Somerset Archaeology 1986, Proc Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist Soc, 130, 146-47.