Small Down Knoll

Small Down Knoll
Editor - W.Page; Chapter on Ancient Earthworks - C.H.Bothamley · Public domain

Small Down Knoll, or Small Down Camp, is a Bronze Age multivallate hill fort near Evercreech on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, rising to 222 m. The fort encloses about 2.4 hectares with mostly double ramparts, and a triple rampart with well-defined double ditches on the flatter eastern side. It contains approximately 14 round barrows forming an east-west burial line along the hilltop crest. Flint finds indicate earlier Mesolithic occupation, while excavations in 1904 by H. St. George Gray recovered flints, pottery, and human remains, with some Iron Age pottery found in barrows and ditches.

TypeFortress/citadel
Period4500 - 3000 BC
CountryEngland
Coordinates51.1643° N, 2.4803° W

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