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Earthwork N of Stubbs Wood, Merehead
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN4186
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4186 (4186)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wanstrow
- National Grid reference
- ST69564371
- Latitude
- 51.19174
- Longitude
- -2.43700
- Altitude
- 183 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1839); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006150
- HER
- Somerset 24775
- National record
- record ST 64 SE 12; monument 200361
- Wikidata
- Q31115823
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A. 1908. Earthwork of England, prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, mediaeval, London: Macmillan, 60-1, 70.
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 54-5.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 475, London: St Catherine Press.
- Phelphs, W. 1839. History and antiquities of Somersetshire, London: J.B. Nichols and Son.