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Westbury camp is sited on a hill slope. On the NE the defences, consisting of a mound with outer ditch, has largely been destroyed by small quarries As the defences go down the hill slope they become weaker. {1}

Appears to be a non-defensive Iron age earthwork enclosure. It consists of a weak bank and ditch, degenerating into little more than a scarp on the lower S side, with a simple entrance at the N end of the E side. The very narrow top of the bank suggests that it may have been surmounted by a dry stone wall. Along part of the E side there are traces of a berm between the bank and the outer ditch and at the W angle shallow quarry pits occur internally and externally set back from the "rampart". The situation at the end of the spur strongly suggests that this is an unfinished hillfort. {3}

A large irregular shaped enclosure defined by a low bank with some associated fields (PRN 24270) to the NW and SE on the SW-facing slope of Mendip. {5}

Barrow within the fort (PRN 24280). {8}

Scheduling revised with new national number (was Somerset 437) on Jan 31 1997. {14}

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