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Little Down Camp
Bath and NE Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3968
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3968 (3968)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bath and NE Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Stoke
- National Grid reference
- ST 7088 6887
- Latitude
- 51.41812
- Longitude
- -2.42010
- Altitude
- 229 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 5.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, counterscarp bank, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Excavation (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004677
- HER
- Bath and NE Somerset MBN1645
- National record
- record ST 76 NW 16; monument 203710
- Wikidata
- Q31119000
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. The ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 60-1.
- 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, 234.
- Bush, T. 1912. Report on Lansdown explorations and discoveries in Bath and vicinity, 1911, Somerset Arch Natur Hist , 125-6.
- 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, 480.
- Witts, G.B. 1888. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucester, Cheltenham: G. Norman, 30