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Conygar
North Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN3985
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3985 (3985)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Portbury
- National Grid reference
- ST49907510
- Latitude
- 51.47258
- Longitude
- -2.72274
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1829); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Other (1962-1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007918
- HER
- North Somerset MNS447
- National record
- record ST 47 NE 13; monument 195214
- Wikidata
- Q31071006
Sources
References
- Burrow, E. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 64-5.
- 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, 252-2.
- Grinsell, L. V. 1979, Somerset Barrows, Somerset Arch Natur Hist , 115, 34.
- Major, A. F. and Burrow, E. J. 1926. The Mystery of Wansdyke, Cheltenham: Ed Burrows and Co, 14, 20.
- 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, 479.
- Rutter, J. 1829. Delineations of the north west division of the County of Somerset, London: Longman, Rees and Co, 255 ff.