This official scheduling entry documents that South Cadbury is an Iron Age multivallate hillfort with evidence from partial excavation revealing occupation across multiple periods. The site was strategically re-fortified around AD 1010 when a royal Saxon mint operated in the vicinity, demonstrating continued importance from the Iron Age through the medieval period. The hillfort represents one of only about 50 large multivallate examples known nationally, making it of national archaeological significance for understanding Iron Age social organisation and settlement patterns.

The passage establishes that the parish of South Cadbury - the immediate ecclesiastical and civil unit containing Cadbury Castle - held a rectory in the Diocese of Bath and Wells, with the parish church dedicated to St Thomas à Becket, a dedication that dates the foundation to post-1170 (after Becket's martyrdom and canonisation). The description of Cadbury Castle as "anciently called Camelot" and situated within a parish holding a rectory worth £237 places the hillfort firmly within a functioning medieval ecclesiastical landscape, confirming that the castle hill sat at the heart of a parish with continuous church life from at least the 13th century. The Phelps county history, written in 1839, synthesises earlier documentary evidence - including the Taxatio and Valor traditions - to show South Cadbury as a recognised rectorial parish throughout the medieval period, directly adjacent to and enclosing the castle site.

This Victorian-era volume of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1890) is directly concerned with Cadbury Castle in Somerset - referred to here as "Camelot, or Cadbury Castle" - and includes both a scholarly paper on Camelot by Rev. J. A. Bennett, F.S.A., and a recorded society excursion to the site, along with visits to South Cadbury Church and North Cadbury. The text also situates the castle within its wider landscape, tracing the probable Roman road from Old Sarum to Ilchester passing near the site, placing Cadbury Castle in its regional archaeological and historical context. This is a genuine Victorian-period primary source dealing with the castle's Arthurian associations, its parish setting in South Cadbury, and the surrounding manors of North Cadbury.

Cadbury Castle contains a continuous sequence of occupation from the Neolithic period (before 3000 BC) through the Bronze Age and Iron Age, demonstrating sustained human use of this location for millennia. The site shows evidence of violent Roman military action in the first century AD and subsequent Roman military installation, indicating its importance as a strategic location during the Roman period.

This monograph documents the long sequence of occupation at Cadbury Castle from the late Bronze Age through the Roman period, with particular focus on the catastrophic Roman military attack in the first century AD that destroyed the indigenous hillforts' gates and structures. The work synthesizes excavation findings to trace the development of one of southern Britain's most significant Iron Age fortifications and its subsequent Roman military subjugation.