Wraxall Camp

Wraxall Camp, or Failand Camp, is a small round earthwork in Somerset [1]. The remains are indistinct and thickly covered by woods, but it appears to have been an Iron Age farmstead, and not a defensive structure [1]. Wraxall Camp is a scheduled monument in the parish of Wraxall and Failand in North Somerset, in an upland region of carboniferous limestone [1]. The site is 1.5 miles east of Wraxall village and 100 metres north of Failand village [1]. It is an Iron Age settlement with a raised oval interior about 40 metres wide on the long axis [1]. Partial excavations in 1928 found sherds of black burnished pottery and a Kimmeridge shale bracelet, typical of rural settlements in the Iron Age [1]. Minor earthworks mark the homes in the interior, which were surrounded by a bank and ditch [1]. The bank, up to 8 metres wide, was made of earth and small stones over natural rock outcrops [1].