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Brewer's Castle
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN4127
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4127 (4127)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Withypool
- National Grid reference
- SS88322977
- Latitude
- 51.05632
- Longitude
- -3.59493
- Altitude
- 205 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 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1890); Other (1965); Other (1998); Earthwork Survey (1993-1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021358
- HER
- Exmoor National Park MSO8663
- National record
- record SS 82 NE 1; monument 35635
- Wikidata
- Q31115803
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, 255-6.
- Dobson, D.P. 1931, The Archaeology of Somerset, 231.
- 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, 477.
- 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the Barle Valley, Somerset : an archaeological survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Unpublished report RCHME.
- RCHME Archaeological Field Survey reports1991 - Riley H 1999 Mounsey Castle and Brewer's Castle: two Iron Age enclosures in the Barle Valley, Somerset. RCHME Survey report