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Tap's Combe Camp
North Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3976
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3976 (3976)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brockley
- National Grid reference
- ST47806708
- Latitude
- 51.40029
- Longitude
- -2.75179
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Hollow Way (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007909
- HER
- North Somerset MNS340
- National record
- record ST 46 NE 3; monument 194826
- Wikidata
- Q31070686
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, 244.