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Worlebury Camp

Iron Age hillfort in Somerset, United Kingdom

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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.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
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Early Modern Period
Industrial Period
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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

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Storage Structures

Storage Pits
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Industrial and Craft Structures

Mines
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United Kingdom

Coordinates

51.36° N, -2.99° E