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Plainsfield Camp is a slight univallate hillfort located in Somerset, England, dating to the Iron Age. The site is defined by a single defensive earthwork comprising a bank and ditch that encloses an irregular area of higher ground. The univallate construction and modest scale of the defences suggest it may have served a local settlement or pastoral function during the later prehistoric period. As a recorded monument in the Somerset landscape, it represents the dispersed pattern of Iron Age fortified sites characteristic of the South West peninsula.
Plainsfield Camp slight univallate hillfort is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007669. View the official record →
Plainsfield Camp is a slight univallate hillfort located in Somerset, England, dating to the Iron Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007669.
Plainsfield Camp slight 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 1007669.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bowl barrows, 530m and 670m north east of Plantation Cottage (2.1 km), Two bowl barrows and a round cairn on Lydeard Hill, 750m north of Tilbury Farm (2.1 km), Bowl barrow 840m north east of Bagborough House (2.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Plainsfield Camp slight 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.
Plainsfield Camp slight univallate hillfort stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.