Roughly triangular enclosure with rounded apex at the W end, occupying the end of a long ridge which falls steeply on the N and W sides. Main defence is a bank of earth and stones with a ditch below, except on the S where the defence is a sharp ditch. The original entrance is on the SW and there is another at the SE corner where the bank has been altered by agricultural operations. {1}

Univallate hillfort with the main entrance on the SE (not SW as above). It is inturned but mutilated by agricultural work. Another gap to the W may also be original. {2}

Earthworks are much damaged by badgers on the E and by agriculture on the S. Ditch is steep sided and cut into the solid rock and there is a marked quarry scoop to the rear of the bank on the W and N sides. Examination of the body of the rampart in a badger scrape revealed a stratum of iron panning 1.5m below the crest. Above this the bank material was compact shale. Simple entrance gap at the W apex and another in the centre of the E side - this may be recent as it is not mentioned in published accounts, although it appears to predate a hedge bank on the outer lip of the ditch. {3}

N, W and SW sides have a rampart 10 yards wide, 6ft high (from the inside) and 18ft high from the base of the ditch. The ditch is 4ft deep and 10ft wide. Much is thickly overgrown. {4}

"Settlement" printed on OS 1:10,000 map. {9}

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Data kindly supplied by the Somerset Historic Environment Record.
Record created on 06 December 2001
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