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Furzebury Brake
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN4139
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4139 (4139)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Minehead Without
- National Grid reference
- SS93584830
- Latitude
- 51.22389
- Longitude
- -3.52538
- Altitude
- 243 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1998); Earthwork Survey (2000); Other (1962-1965); Other (2006-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008809
- HER
- Exmoor National Park MSO7577
- National record
- record SS 94 NW 14; monument 36801
- Wikidata
- Q31115806
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. The ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 86-7.
- 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, 259.
- Dobson, D.P. 1931, The Archaeology of Somerset, 239.
- Grinsell, L.V. 1970. The archaeology of Exmoor : Bideford Bay to Bridgwater, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 78,79,85,201.
- 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, 496.