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Burledge
Bath and NE Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3971
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3971 (3971)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bath and NE Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- West Harptree
- National Grid reference
- ST58205850
- Latitude
- 51.32400
- Longitude
- -2.60129
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (West); Hollow Way (West); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1736); 1st Identified Written Reference (1776); Excavation (1955); LiDAR Survey (2014); Other (1959-1966); Other (2006-2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004526
- HER
- Bath and NE Somerset MBN608
- National record
- record ST 55 NE 4; monument 197270
- Wikidata
- Q31119023
Sources
References
- ApSimon,A.M., 1957. Archaeological Notes - Excavations at Burledge Camp, Somerset, Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc, 8(1), 40.
- ApSimon, A. M. 1977. in eds P.A. Rahtz and E. Greenfield, Excavations at Chew Valley Lake, DoE Arch Rep No 8, 168-70 (HMSO).
- 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, 226.
- Crook, K.M. and Tratman, E.K. 1946. Field Work, (Gloucesterhire and Somerset, 1947), Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc, 6(1), 42-54.
- Crook, K.M. and Tratman, E.K. 1954. Burledge Camp, Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc, 7(1) 39-41.
- 4 (R Iles)