Remains of a bank 8ft high and an almost completely silted-up ditch run round the W and SW sides, but quarrying has destroyed the banks on the NW and S and further down to the E. {1}
The destruction of this earthwork has been rendered almost complete by the bulldozing of the rampart on the S in the spring of 1964. The rest has been completely quarried away. The line of the rampart can still be traced on the S but the remains are so meagre that the plan and type of the earthwork cannot be deduced. Its situation on the side of the hill suggests that it may been on IA hill-slope enclosure, similar to Trendle Ring (PRN 33201), rather than a hillfort. {2}
The banks now only survive on the W and S sides consisting of a bank about 2 5m high. {3}
There are two quarries on the S edge of the site. {4}
Nothing is shown on the 1:10,000 map. {8}
References:
| 1 |
Description - Victoria County History of Somerset 1911 vol 1, 479-80 |
| 2 |
Detailed records - Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division 1965 ST13NW1 (SCC Planning Department) |
| 3 |
Mention - BAR 91 Burrow, I 1981 "Hillfort and Hilltop Settlement...", 266-67 |
| 4 |
Detailed records - HBMC Field Monument Wardens report (SCC Planning Department) |
| 5 |
Mention - Page, J.L.W 1890 "An Exploration of Exmoor", 260 |
| 6 |
Mention - Burrow, E.J 1924 "Earthworks and Camps of Somerset", 64 |
| 7 |
Sketch plan - Victoria County History of Somerset 1911 vol 1, 479-80 |
| 8 |
Map - OS 1979 1:10,000 ST13NW (SCC Planning Department) |
Data kindly supplied by the Somerset Historic Environment Record.
Record created on 06 December 2001
© Copyright Somerset County Council 2007 |
