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Dolebury Camp
North Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3978
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3978 (3978)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Churchill
- National Grid reference
- ST45005895
- Latitude
- 51.32693
- Longitude
- -2.79078
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1829); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Other (1985); Other (2008); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (2006-2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008184
- HER
- North Somerset MNS251
- National record
- record ST 45 NE 3; monument 194279
- Wikidata
- Q31070841
Sources
References
- Burrow, E. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 82-3.
- Burrow, I. 1981. Hillfort and hill-top settlement in Somerset in the first to eighth centuries AD, British Archaeological Report (BAR) British Series 1, 208-9.
- Collinson, History of Somerset, 3 1791, 579.
- Dobson, D.P. 1931. Archaeology of Somerset, 196-7, 238.
- Dymond, C.W. 1882. Dolebury and Cadbury: two Somersetshire camps, Brit Archaeol Ass, 38, 398-419.
- Dymond, C.W. 1883, Dolbury and Cadbury: two Somersetshire camps, Somerset Arch Natur Hist, 29. 104-116.
- Grinsell, L.V. 1958. Archaeology of Wessex, London: Methuen,165.
- Hollinrake, R. and Hollinrake, N. 1986, Survey of Dolebury Hillfort and Dolebury Warren, Bristol Avon Archaeol, 5, 5-ll.
- Knight, F.A. 1915. Heart of Mendip, 199-208.
- 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, 487-90.
- Rutter, 1829. Delin. of North-West Somerset, 114.