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Kingsdown Camp
Somerset, England · Atlas EN0463
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0463 (463)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mells
- National Grid reference
- ST71885172
- Latitude
- 51.26388
- Longitude
- -2.40443
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (South east); Other Forms (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1927-1929)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006219
- HER
- Somerset 23849
- National record
- record ST 75 SW 4; monument 203188
- Wikidata
- Q31115708
Sources
References
- Burrow, I. 1981. Hillfort and hill-top settlement in Somerset in the first to eighth centuries AD, BAR British Series 1(1974) - 91, 260.
- Gray, H.St.G. 1930. Excavations at Kingsdown Camp, Mells, Somerset, 1927-9, Archaeologia, 80, 59-98.