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Maesbury Castle
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0459
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0459 (459)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Croscombe
- National Grid reference
- ST610471
- Latitude
- 51.22170
- Longitude
- -2.55986
- Altitude
- 292 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Footprint
- 6.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, counterscarp bank, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North west); Simple Gap (South east); Outworks (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015494
- HER
- Somerset 23349
- National record
- record ST 64 NW 16; monument 200279
- Wikidata
- Q31115672
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 80-81.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 491-92, London: St Catherine Press.
- Tratman, E.K. 1958. Maesbury Castle, Somerset, Proc Univ Bristol Spaeol Soc, 8(3), 172-78.