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Burrington Camp
North Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3977
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3977 (3977)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Burrington
- National Grid reference
- ST47825878
- Latitude
- 51.32566
- Longitude
- -2.75028
- Altitude
- 168 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, berm, and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Excavation (1948); Excavation (1960); Other (2007); 1st Identified Written Reference (1601-1800); Other (2006-2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011261
- HER
- North Somerset MNS265
- National record
- record ST 45 NE 43; monument 194391
- Wikidata
- Q31070751
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A. 1908. Earthwork of England, prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, mediaeval, London: Macmillan, 582-4.
- Burrow, E. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 68-9.
- 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, 244-6.
- Grinsell, L.V. 1958. Archaeology of Wessex, London: Methuen,165.
- Jamieson E. 2007. Burrington Camp, North Somerset: a late-prehistoric enclosure on the Mendip Hills, Centre for Archaeology Archaeological Survey Report No 81-2007.
- 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, 483-4.
- Tratman, E.K. 1963. Archaeological notes - Burrington Camp, Somerset. An unoccupied site, Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc, 10(1), 16-21.
- Williams, R. G. J. 1987. John Strachey on some Mendip caverns and antiquities in the early 18th century, Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc, 18, 57-64.