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Worlebury Camp
51.3574° N, -2.9852° E
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Worlebury Camp (also known as Worlebury Hillfort) is the site of an Iron Age hillfort on Worlebury Hill, north of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. The fort was well defended with numerous walls, embankments and ditches around the site. Several large triangular platforms have been uncovered around the sides of the fort, lower down on the hillside. Nearly one hundred storage pits of various sizes were cut into the bedrock, and many of these contained human remains, coins, and other artefacts. During the 19th and 20th centuries the fort suffered damage and was threatened with complete destruction on multiple occasions. Now, the site is a designated Scheduled monument. It falls within the Weston Woods Local Nature Reserve which was declared to Natural England by the North Somerset Council in 2005.
Historical Timeline
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Roman presence attested
1st century AD
Quarrying begins
1815
Railway arrives at Weston-super-Mare
1841
Improvement and Market Act
May 1842
Early excavations
1851-1852
Victorian-era development noted
1853
Dymond returns to excavate
1880-1881
Bronze Age axe recovery
1883
Woodspring Museum excavations
1987-1988
Avon assessment
1998
Condition survey and earthwork analysis
2017-2019
Archaeological Features
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Storage Structures
Defensive Structures
Burial and Funerary Structures
Industrial and Craft Structures
Domestic and Habitation Structures
Environmental and Natural Features
Transportation and Communication Structures
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