Site Name: Blackers Hillfort, Chilcompton
Scheduled Monument: Small multivallate promontory fort on Blacker's Hill [No:29032]
Civil Parish: Chilcompton
Grid Ref: ST 6365 5005 (ST 65 SW)

A geophysical survey of Blackers Hill (PRN 23292) was undertaken in 1999 which provided evidence for activity within the interior as well as recognizing areas of geological disturbance. Blackers Hill may have undergone several phases of activity as several enclosures, linear boundaries, roundhouses and pits were detected . The survey revealed the possible line of a destroyed inner rampart and suggests that an original entrance may have existed in the NE corner. Analysis of the surveys and other evidence suggests that Blackers Hill originated as a univallate structure and was then later modified, forming a developed hillfort. {1}


References:

1 Survey report - Allen, E, 1999, "A Geophysical Survey of an Iron Age Hillfort at Blackers Hill, Chilcompton, North Somerset" unpublished BSc report in HER files

Recommended books on hill forts;
Danebury Hillfort ~ Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts of England and Wales ~ James Dyer
Cadbury Castle - The Hillfort and Landscapes ~ Richard Tabor
The Wessex Hillfort Project ~ Andrew Payne, Mark Corney and Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park ~ Stewart Ainsworth and Trevor Pearson
Celtic Fortifications ~ Ian Ralston