Location
- Atlas number
- EN3975 (3975)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Banwell
- National Grid reference
- ST409590
- Latitude
- 51.32696
- Longitude
- -2.84962
- Altitude
- 97 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 8.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1885); Excavation (1958); Excavation (1900-1902)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008031
- HER
- North Somerset MNS219
- National record
- record ST 45 NW 6; monument 194460
- Wikidata
- Q31070648
Sources
References
- Burrow, E. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 48-9.
- 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, 211.
- Hunt, J. 1955. Sketch plan and sections, J Axbridge Caving Group and Arch Soc, 2, No. 3, 1955, 28-34.
- Hunt, J. 1961. Excavations at Banwell Camp, Somerset and Dorset Notes Queries, 27, 28-34.
- Hunt, J. 1961. Banwell Camp 1960 Excavations, Search, (J Banwell Soc), 1, 9-23.
- Hunt, J. 1962. Banwell Camp 1960 Excavations, Search, (J Banwell Soc), 2, 11-19.
- 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, 471.