Category: Somerset Hillforts

Wadbury camp hillfort is a promontory fort situated on the N side of the Mells stream, the steep banks of...

Wain’s Hill hillfort encloses around 6 acres (2.5 hectares). The enclosure has been formed by the large rampart on the...

Westbury Camp hillfort is sited on a hill slope. On the NE the defences, consisting of a mound with outer...

Westwood Hillfort. See PRN 18406 for excavation of “Westwood Barrow” which appears to have been a surviving part of the earthworks of...

Whitestaunton Camp hillfort comprises a single bank with a ditch on the NE side. On the W the hillside has...

Winsmoor hillfort – suggested middle to late Iron Age hilltop enclosure discovered during the laying of a water pipeline (PRN...

Worelbury Camp hillfort is a large, multivallate Iron Age promontory hillfort, with stone-built ramparts up to 20ft high on the...

Worminster Down hillfort – aerial photograph shows double ditched enclosure on Worminster Down. Possible hillfort but not on top of...

Wraxal Camp hillfort is a small, univallate, circular, probably Iron Age enclosure around 50 yards (45 metres) across. No ditch...