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Wain's Hill
North Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3939
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3939 (3939)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clevedon
- National Grid reference
- ST391706
- Latitude
- 51.43164
- Longitude
- -2.87726
- Altitude
- 34 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1987); Other (1998); Geophysical Survey (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884-1885); Other (2006-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007908
- HER
- North Somerset MNS184
- National record
- record ST 39 NW; monument 192815
- Wikidata
- Q31070598
Sources
References
- Burrow, E. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 142-3.
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Burrow, I. 1981. Hillfort and hill-top settlement in Somerset in the first to eighth centuries AD, British Archaeological Report (BAR) British Series 1, 91, 231
- La Trobe-Bateman, E. 1999. Clevedon, North Somerset, Avon Extensive Urban Survey.
- Smisson, R. 2006. Resistivity survey of Wain's Hill, Clevedon, Unpublished.
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