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Cadbury Camp, Tickenham
North Somerset, England · Atlas EN3986
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3986 (3986)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tickenham
- National Grid reference
- ST45427247
- Latitude
- 51.44852
- Longitude
- -2.78683
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour 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
- 2.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North); In-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Excavation (1922); Other (1962-1965); Geophysical Survey (1998-1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008295
- HER
- North Somerset MNS531
- National record
- record ST 47 SE 25; monument 195367
- Wikidata
- Q31071073
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Burrow, E. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 76-7.
- 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, 227-8.
- 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, 500-1.
- Papworth, M. 1999. Interim report on geophysical survey at Cadbury Camp, Tickenham, North Somerset, Interim report to National Trust.
- Papworth, M. 1999. Interim report on geophysical survey II at Cadbury Camp, Tickenham, North Somerset, Interim report to National Trust.
- Papworth, M. 2001 CADBURY CAMP, TICKENHAM, NORTH SOMERSET: GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY OF THE HILLFORT INTERIOR, National Trust, unpublished.
- St George Gray, H. 1922. Trial-excavations at Cadbury Camp, Tickenham, Somerset, 1922, Somerset Arch Natur Hist , 68, 8-20.