Wraxall Camp

Wraxall Camp (also called Failand Camp) is a small Iron Age enclosed settlement in North Somerset, situated on carboniferous limestone upland between Wraxall and Failand villages. The sub-oval enclosure measures about 40 metres across, surrounded by an earth-and-stone bank up to 8m wide and a ditch, with a possible 3m-wide entrance on the southwest. Partial excavations in 1928 recovered black burnished pottery sherds and a Kimmeridge shale bracelet, typical of rural Iron Age farmsteads, though these finds were later destroyed by World War II bombing. The site appears to have been a farmstead rather than a defensive fortification.