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Burgh Walls Camp
North Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3984
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3984 (3984)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Long Ashton
- National Grid reference
- ST56247299
- Latitude
- 51.45414
- Longitude
- -2.63121
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1789); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1789); 1st Identified Written Reference (1821); Other (1836); Other (1962-1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- North Somerset MNS860
- National record
- record ST 57 SE 37; monument 198387
- Wikidata
- Q31070523
Sources
References
- Barrett, W. 1789. History and antiquities of the City of Bristol.
- Burrow, E. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 46-7.
- Cotton, M.A. 1954. British camps with timber-laces ramparts, Arch J, 111, 26-105.
- Manby, G.W. 1802. Fugitive sketches of the history and natural beauties of Clifton, Hotwells and vicinity, Bristol: Norton, 9, 12-13.
- Morgan, C. Lloyd 1900. Notes on Clifton, Burwalls and Stokeleigh Camps, Clifton Ant Clb, 5, 8-24.
- Phelps, W. 1836. History and Antiquities of Somersetshire 1, London: J.B. Nichols and Son, 96.
- Seyer, S. 1821. Memoirs, historical and topographical, of Bristol and its neighbourhood, 62-4.