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Mounsey Castle
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN4119
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4119 (4119)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dulverton
- National Grid reference
- SS88562955
- Latitude
- 51.05439
- Longitude
- -3.59144
- Altitude
- 219 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North east); Other Forms (North east); Out-turned (South west); In-turned (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1890); Other (1965); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021357
- HER
- Exmoor National Park MSO9316
- National record
- record SS 82 NE 2; monument 35638
- Wikidata
- Q31115793
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. The ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 88.
- 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, 240-1.
- Page, J.L.W. 1890. An Exploration of Exmoor and the Hill Country of West Somerset: With Notes on Its Archaeology, 85-6.
- 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, 492-3.
- Riley, H. 1999. Mounsey Castle and Brewer's Castle : two Iron Age enclosures in the Barle Valley, Somerset : an archaeological survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Unpublished report RCHME.