Location
- Atlas number
- EN0464 (464)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mells
- National Grid reference
- ST735489
- Latitude
- 51.23860
- Longitude
- -2.38101
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 30 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and ridge
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1998); Excavation (2000); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); LiDAR Survey (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006162
- HER
- Somerset 23850
- National record
- record ST 74 NW 2; monument 202772
- Wikidata
- Q31115720
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 58-59.