Site Name: Possible Iron Age hillfort, Winsmoor Hill, Stocklinch
Civil Parish: Barrington, Stocklinch
Grid Ref: ST 3915 1706 (ST 31 NE)

Suggested middle to late Iron Age hilltop enclosure discovered during the laying of a water pipeline (PRN 16122) on Winsmoor Hill. Some of the strip lynches that are a feature of the hill side east of Stocklinch may form part of the defensive circuit around the summit. {1}


References:

1 Detailed records - Hollinrake C and Hollinrake N An Archaeological Watching Brief on a Wessex Water Pipeline, between, Shepton Beauchamp and Stocklinch Reservoir Unpublished Report 286: Report (2002) in HER files (PRN 16122)

Data kindly supplied by the Somerset Historic Environment Record.
Record created on 06 December 2001
© Copyright Somerset County Council 2007

Recommended books on hill forts;
Danebury Hillfort ~ Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts of England and Wales ~ James Dyer
Cadbury Castle - The Hillfort and Landscapes ~ Richard Tabor
The Wessex Hillfort Project ~ Andrew Payne, Mark Corney and Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park ~ Stewart Ainsworth and Trevor Pearson
Celtic Fortifications ~ Ian Ralston