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Little Solsbury Hill Camp

Bath and NE Somerset, England · Atlas EN3963

Little Solsbury Hill Camp is a contour fort in Batheaston, Bath and NE Somerset, England.

Other names on the record: Solsbury Hill, Batheaston and Little Solisbury Camp.

It is recorded as extant, with a univallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank, and an enclosed area of 7.9 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a hilltop and at 188 m.

The aspect is recorded as level.

Recorded land use includes pasture.

Dating evidence is recorded for 400 BC–AD 50 (Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology). Reliability is recorded as B - Medium.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (1002481).

Location

Atlas number
EN3963 (3963)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Bath and NE Somerset
Historic county
Somerset
Parish, community, or townland
Batheaston
National Grid reference
ST76806790
Latitude
51.40959
Longitude
-2.33498
Altitude
188 m

Form and condition

Type
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
7.9 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
Also recorded
multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Entrance forms
In-turned (North west)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture

Dating

Dating
400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
Dating reliability
B - Medium

Interior and investigation

Interior excavation
postholes and roundhouses
Finds
pottery, metal, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Geophysical Survey (2012); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1955-1958); Other (1992-1996)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1002481
HER
Bath and NE Somerset MBN1717
National record
record ST 76 NE 30; monument 203323
Wikidata
Q31118972

Sources

References

  1. Burrow, E.J. 1924. The ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 50-1.
  2. 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, 208-9.
  3. Catling, C. 2014. On Solsbury Hill. Seeing inside a hillfort. Current Archaeol, 292, 16-23.
  4. Collinson, J. 1791. History and Antiquities of Somerset, 1, 98-101.
  5. Dowden, W.A. 1957. Little Solsbury Hill Camp. Report on excavations of 1955 and 1956, Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc, 8, 18-19.
  6. Dowden, W.A. 1962. Little Solsbury Hill Camp. Report on the excavations of 1958, Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc, 9, 177-82.
  7. Oswin, J. and Buettner, R. 2014. Little Solsbury Hill Camp Geophysical Survey Batheaston, Somerset 2012. Report Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society (http://bacas.org.uk)..