Compton Dundon

Dundon Hill Hillfort is a univallate Iron Age hillfort in Compton Dundon, Somerset, England, designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Situated above the River Cary overlooking the Somerset Levels, the outer earthworks enclose approximately 4.8 hectares. A 1997 water pipeline excavation through the rampart revealed a multi-phase defensive sequence: an initial timber-laced stone rampart that was subsequently burned, overlaid by a later clay rampart, with possible pre-rampart cobbles suggesting earlier occupation. Earlier surface finds from 1916 included flint tools and Bronze Age pottery. Southeast of the fort lies a Bronze Age bowl barrow possibly modified as a Norman motte, known as Dundon Beacon. The defenses suggest dating from the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age (8th-5th centuries BC), though quarrying that ended in 1925 significantly altered the site.