Category: Somerset Hillforts

King’s Castles Enclosures hillfort is an unusual site consisting of a line of at least three conjoined stone-walled enclosures extending...

King’s Castle hillfort is set on isolated steep-sided and roughly flat-topped hill, much mutilated and defaced by quarrying on a...

Kingsdown Camp hillfort is a small univallate enclosure with further earthworks around. The whole area is under pasture. The main...

Knapp Copse hillfort is situated in dense woodland, discovered in 1978. Defences on the W and SW sides are large...

Longbottom Camp hillfort is an irregular rhomboidal enclosure with a bank and outer ditch on the N (uphill) side and...

Maes Knoll Camp hillfort is a semi-triangular Iron Age enclosure of approximately 26 acres. The original entrance is thought to...

Bivallate hillfort enclosing c7 acres. The inner bank is mostly 5ft high but increases to 10ft at the E end....

Mells Down Camp hillfort survives as a major double ditched enclosure, consisting of a ploughed down earthwork of a univallate...

Mounsey Castle is a univalate hillfort of around 1.5 hectares, roughly tringlular in shape, and constructed on a promontory overlooking...

Norton Camp hillfort is a hill-top contour fort enclosing c5.2ha with three entrances, each a deep hollow way. Bidgood in...