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Grabbist Hill
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN4113
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4113 (4113)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunster
- National Grid reference
- SS982436
- Latitude
- 51.18304
- Longitude
- -3.45678
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Recesses/Guard Chambers (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1950); Other (1965); Other (1989); Other (1998); Other (2007-2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021060
- HER
- Exmoor National Park MSO9408
- National record
- record SS 94 SE 2; monument 36851
- Wikidata
- Q31115776
Sources
References
- Dennison, E. 1986. Somerset archaeology 1986, Somerset Archaeol Natur Hist, 130, 1986 141-61.