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Dinies Camp
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0460
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0460 (460)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Downhead
- National Grid reference
- ST67674583
- Latitude
- 51.21070
- Longitude
- -2.46424
- Altitude
- 245 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1961); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006169
- HER
- Somerset 23428
- National record
- record ST 64 NE 2; monument 200178
- Wikidata
- Q31115675
Sources
References
- Council for British Archaeology : Group 12 (Wessex) & Group 13 (South West). Note, Archaeological review 2/1967/12.
- Overend, E.D. 1962. Aerial photographs of the Frome area, Proc Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist Soc, 106, 77-80.
- Powlesland, I. 1998. Field survey of Dinies Camp, Downhead, Somerset. Bristol: University of Bristol, unpublished dissertation.