Location
- Atlas number
- EN0462 (462)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Evercreach
- National Grid reference
- ST666406
- Latitude
- 51.16361
- Longitude
- -2.47907
- Altitude
- 222 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1904); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006175
- HER
- Somerset 23483
- National record
- record ST 64 SE 7; monument 200348
- Wikidata
- Q31115696
Sources
References
- Gray, H.St.G. 1904. Excavations at Small Down Camp, near Evercreech, 1904, Proc Somerset Archaeolo Natur Hist Soc, 50, 32-49.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 494-95, London: St Catherine Press.