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Blacker's Hill
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0458
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0458 (458)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chilcompton
- National Grid reference
- ST636500
- Latitude
- 51.24795
- Longitude
- -2.52293
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4.6 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (1998); LiDAR Survey (2014); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015493
- HER
- Somerset 23292
- National record
- record ST 65 SW 24; monument 200816
- Wikidata
- Q31115668
Sources
References
- Allen E.1998. A geophysical survey of an Iron Age hill fort at Blacker's Hill, Chilcompton, North Somerset. Bournemouth University School of Conservation Sciences [assessment & survey reports].
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 70-71.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 487, London: St Catherine Press.