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Bury Castle, Selworthy
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN4140
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4140 (4140)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Selworthy
- National Grid reference
- SS91774716
- Latitude
- 51.21330
- Longitude
- -3.55095
- Altitude
- 240 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, annex, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1836); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1965); Other (1998); Earthwork Survey (2000); Other (2006-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008808
- HER
- Exmoor National Park MSO8008
- National record
- record SS 94 NW 2; monument 36765
- Wikidata
- Q31115808
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A.H. 1908. Earthwork of England : prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and mediaeval, London: Macmillan, 112-13.
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. The ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 72-3.
- 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, 79,84-5,201
- 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, 499-500.
- Phelps, Rev. J. 1936. The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire. Being a general and parochial survey of that interesting county, London: J.B. Nichols and Son, 117.
- Whybrow, C. 1967. Some multivallate hillforts on Exmoor and in North Devon, Proc Devon Archaeol Soc, 11-12.
- Wild, P. 1998. Bury Castle, Selworthy Somerset, Unpublished RCHME report.