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Wadbury Camp is an Iron Age hillfort situated in Somerset. The monument comprises a roughly circular enclosure defined by a single bank and ditch, typical of fortified settlements from the later prehistoric period. Its defensive earthworks suggest occupation during the Iron Age, when such hillforts served as centres of settlement, storage, and refuge across the South West of England. The site remains an important archaeological record of Iron Age settlement patterns in the region.
Wadbury camp is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006162. View the official record →
Wadbury Camp is an Iron Age hillfort situated in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006162.
Wadbury camp 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 1006162.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Lime Kiln Hill Quarry Cave (0.8 km), Whatley Combe Roman villa (2 km), Nunney Castle (3.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Wadbury camp'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.
Wadbury camp stands on Inferior Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.