Location
- Atlas number
- EN4044 (4044)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Bristol
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- National Grid reference
- ST55607813
- Latitude
- 51.50030
- Longitude
- -2.64106
- Altitude
- 94 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Excavation (1956); Excavation (1966); Excavation (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002479
- HER
- City of Bristol 1757M; 1758M
- National record
- record ST 57 NE 4; monument 198171
- Wikidata
- Q31109023
Sources
References
- 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.
- Godman, C. 1972. King's Weston Hill, Bristol. Its prehistoric camps and inhumation cemetery, Proc Univ Bristol Speleol Soc, 13(1), 41-48.
- Rahtz, P.A. 1957. Kings Weston Down Camp, Bristol, 1956. Proc Univ Bristol Speleol Soc, 8(1), 30-38.
- Tratman, E.K. 1923. First Report on Kings Weston Hill, Bristol. Proc Univ Bristol Speleol Soc, 2(1), 76-82.