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Norton Camp is a univallate Iron Age hillfort located in Somerset, England. The site is defined by a single defensive bank and ditch encircling an oval or roughly circular interior, a characteristic design of hillforts constructed during the Iron Age period. The monument occupies a commanding position that would have offered strategic advantage for settlement and control of the surrounding landscape. As with many hillforts of the region, Norton Camp likely served as a centre for community activity, storage, and defence during the later prehistoric period, though detailed archaeological investigation of this particular site remains limited in the published record.
Norton Camp large univallate hillfort is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008467. View the official record →
Norton Camp is a univallate Iron Age hillfort located in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008467.
Norton Camp large univallate hillfort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1008467.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Taunton Castle: a motte and bailey castle, part of the outer bailey, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and a Civil War artillery platform (3.5 km), Borough Bank, a section of medieval town defences 70m north of St Mary Magdalene Church (3.6 km), Bradford Bridge (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Norton Camp large univallate hillfort's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Norton Camp large univallate hillfort stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.