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Stantonbury Camp
Bath and NE Somerset, England · Atlas EN3967
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3967 (3967)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bath and NE Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Marksbury
- National Grid reference
- ST67256366
- Latitude
- 51.37100
- Longitude
- -2.47189
- Altitude
- 177 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Footprint
- 5.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Other (1980); Other (1984); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (1961-1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002487
- HER
- Bath and NE Somerset MBN1306
- National record
- record ST 66 SE 11; monument 201138
- Wikidata
- Q31118991
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. The ancient earthworks and Camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 92-3.
- 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, 219-20.
- Fox, A. and Fox, C. 1960. Wansdyke reconsidered. Archaeol J, 115, 1-48.
- Page, W. ed. 1911. Ancient earthworks, The Victoria History of Somerset, Volume Two, The Victoria History of the Counties of England, London: Constable and Co, 500.