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Tunley Camp
Bath and NE Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3972
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3972 (3972)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bath and NE Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Camerton
- National Grid reference
- ST68305910
- Latitude
- 51.33005
- Longitude
- -2.45640
- Altitude
- 173 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 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1958); Other (1955-1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004525
- HER
- Bath and NE Somerset MBN1140
- National record
- record ST 65 NE 7; monument 200471
- Wikidata
- Q31119036
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, 228.