More information : [ST 1022 3851] Camp (NR) (1)
Curdon Camp, Stogumber, is sited a little way down the end of a
ridge, where it drops steeply to a brook. Remains of a bank,
8ft. high and an almost completely silted-up ditch run round
the W. and S.W. sides, but quarrying has destroyed the banks on
the N.W. and S., and further down to the E. It seems fairly
clear that the eastern defence was a steep scarp. (see plan)
(2).
Univallate hillfort (under 3 acres) (3).
The destruction of this earthwork has been rendered almost
complete by the bulldozing of the rampart on the south in the
Spring of 1964. The rest had been previously quarried away.
The line of the rampart can still be traced on the south but
the remains are so meagre that the plan and type of the
earthwork cannot be deduced. Its situation on the side of a
hill suggests that it may have been an I.A. hill slope
enclosure, similar to Trendle Ring ST 13 NW 3 and ST 13 NE 17,
rather than a hillfort. However, both Bothamley's description
and the spread of bulldozed material seem to indicate that the
rampart here was more substantial.
Surveyed at 1:2500. (4)
ST 103385. Curdon Wood camp. Scheduled. (5)
The place name Curdon is "associated with a so called Iron Age
camp known in 1578 as 'dead man's burial'." (6)
ST 103385. Curdon Camp has now almost gone, "if it ever
existed". Listed as bogus. (7)
Additional Bibliography. (8-11)
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