Category: Somerset Hillforts

Oldberry Castle hillfort is an elongated ovate univalate hillfort of under 3 acres overlooking the river Barle. A short way...

Orchard Wood hillfort is an unfinished univallate semi-circular [sic] hillfort has been located on a hilltop in mixed woodland occupying...

A small camp, rhomboidal in shape, 180 by 150 yards. Of simple bank and ditch construction with an out-turned entrance...

Road Castle Camp hillfort. Of probably Iron Age date, Road Castle Camp is square in shape and encloses less than...

Roddenbury Hillfort occupies a prominent position on a hilltop. Appears on APs to have been of triangular plan but only...

Rook’s Castle hillfort is in an ideal location for a spur end enclosure of the Higher Castles type. The ground...

Rowberrow camp hillfot. N part of the interior slopes very steeply, built below the brow of a hill, so that...

Ruborough Camp hillfort (Rowberrow, Rowborough, Roborough) is a triangular-shaped promontory fort, comprising double bank with medial ditch. The entrance was...

Small Down Camp hillfort covers some 5 acres. The defences are bivallate except on the east side where a counterscarp...

Solsbury Hill hillfort (properly known as ‘Little Solsbury Hill Camp’). This is a fair sized, sub-triangular enclosure of approximately 20...