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Backwell
North Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3974
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3974 (3974)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Backwell
- National Grid reference
- ST49406805
- Latitude
- 51.40915
- Longitude
- -2.72893
- Altitude
- 99 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1933)
Identifiers
- HER
- North Somerset MNS350
- National record
- record ST 46 NE 4; monument 194831
- Wikidata
- Q31070377
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, 263.
- Glasson, M. 1979. Note in Somerset archaeology 1978, Somerset Arch Natur Hist , 123, 102.