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Wraxall Camp
51.4443° N, -2.6913° E
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Wraxall Camp, or Failand Camp, is a small round earthwork in Somerset. The remains are indistinct and thickly covered by woods, but it appears to have been an Iron Age farmstead, and not a defensive structure.
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Partial excavation
1928
Museum collection destroyed
1939–1945
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