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Black Ball Camp
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN4110
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4110 (4110)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunster
- National Grid reference
- SS98434265
- Latitude
- 51.17398
- Longitude
- -3.45435
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); Oblique (South west); Recesses/Guard Chambers (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1965); Other (1989); Other (1998); Earthwork Survey (1999-2000); Other (2006-2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007668
- HER
- Exmoor National Park MS09410
- National record
- record SS 94 SE 4; monument 36857
- Wikidata
- Q31115755
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A.H. 1908. Earthwork of England : prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and mediaeval, London: Macmillan, 137.
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. The ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 106-7.
- 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.
- Grinsell, L.V. 1970. The archaeology of Exmoor : Bideford Bay to Bridgwater, Newton Abbot: David and Charles., 87, 201
- 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, 508.