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Bury Castle Camp, Brompton Regis
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN4141
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4141 (4141)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brompton Regis
- National Grid reference
- SS93852698
- Latitude
- 51.03229
- Longitude
- -3.51523
- Altitude
- 183 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Blocked (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1890); Other (1965); Earthwork Survey (1996); Other (1998); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006170
- HER
- Exmoor National Park MSO8841
- National record
- record SS 92 NW 7; monument 36540
- Wikidata
- Q31115812
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A.H. 1908. Earthwork of England : prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and mediaeval, London: Macmillan, 136.
- Anon 1996. Bury Castle, Brompton Regis, Unpublished client report RCHME.
- 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, 482-3.