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Roddenbury Hill
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0467
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0467 (467)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Selwood
- National Grid reference
- ST798439
- Latitude
- 51.19390
- Longitude
- -2.29048
- Altitude
- 175 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.84 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008804
- HER
- Somerset 24462
- National record
- record ST 74 SE 2; monument 202867
- Wikidata
- Q31115730
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, 247.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 509-10, London: St Catherine Press.