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Highbury Hill
Bath and NE Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3965
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3965 (3965)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bath and NE Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clutton
- National Grid reference
- ST63505800
- Latitude
- 51.31987
- Longitude
- -2.52518
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour 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
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1965); Other (1972); LiDAR Survey (2014); 1st Identified Written Reference (1801-1832)
Identifiers
- HER
- Bath and NE Somerset MBN1104
- National record
- record ST 65 NW 2; monument 200574
- Wikidata
- Q31118981
Sources
References
- 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, 220-1.
- Coombs, H. and Coombs, P. 1971. Journal of a Somerset Rector 1803-1834, 108.
- Fowler, P.J. and Fowler, R.L. 1972. Council for British Archaeology : Group 12 (Wessex) and Group 13 (South West) : Archaeological review, 7, 24.
- Skinner, Rev. J. MSS 26 (1799-1826), 26B-29.