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Westbury Camp
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0466
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0466 (466)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rodney Stoke
- National Grid reference
- ST4920051100
- Latitude
- 51.25673
- Longitude
- -2.72939
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, hillslope, and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (2007); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015500
- HER
- Somerset 24269
- National record
- record ST 45 SE 31; monument 194654
- Wikidata
- Q31115728
Sources
References
- Jamieson, E. 2007. Westbury Camp, Somerset: a late -prehistoric hillfort on the Mendip Hills, Centre for Archaeology Report series Jamieson E/2007/ archaeological survey/Report No 71-2007, Swindon: English Heritage.