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Mells Down Camp
Somerset, England · Atlas EN0456
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0456 (456)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mells
- National Grid reference
- ST72395151
- Latitude
- 51.26202
- Longitude
- -2.39711
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 11 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Outworks (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- Investigations
- Excavation (1998)
Identifiers
- HER
- Somerset 12041
- National record
- record ST 75 SW
- Wikidata
- Q31115611
Sources
References
- Powlesland, I, 1998. A Survey of the Prehistoric/Roman landscape of the East Somerset Area, No 9, unpublished report Somerset County Council.
- Powlesland, I. Undated. Fieldwork at Mells Down, Beeches Grove and Downhead 1997-2000; Survey, excavation and fieldwalking. (2005), unpublished report Somerset County Council.