Wadbury Camp

Wadbury Camp is a promontory fort in Somerset, England that protected the mining district of the Mendip Hills in pre-Roman times [1]. Wadbury camp lies on a ridge to the north of the steep valley of the Mells Stream, called the Wadbury Valley [1]. The camp is a slight univallate hillfort, an elongated oval enclosure [1]. It has a single rampart, outer ditch and counterscarp bank on all but the western side, where it is protected by the steep bank of the ravine [1]. The bank would have been 16 feet high, with a ditch that has a revetment of stones below its counterscarp [1]. The sides of the ridge are steep to the north and precipitous to the south and west [1]. Wadbury Camp dates to between 800 BC and 43 AD [1]. The ramparts survive but are no more than 3 metres high, and in some places have been destroyed by quarries or buildings [1].