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RUBOROUGH CAMP

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Earthwork remains of a large Iron Age univallate hillfort.

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[ST 228335] Ruborough Camp [GT] (1)

Ruborough Camp (Rowberrow, Rowborough, Roborough) is a triangular-shaped promontory fort, comprising double bank with medial ditch. The entrance was apparently in the west where there is, also, an outlying bank and ditch. Collins (4) says there was a strong legend of buried treasure here, the Camp being known locally as 'The Money Field'. (2-4)

Ruborough Camp is an Iron Age promontory fort at the eastern end of a steep sided ridge. The two western defences are connected in the south by a small bank, and along the north side by a large field boundary, probably made from an original rampart.
Published survey (1/2500) revised. (5)

ST 227 335. Ruborough Camp, SAM No 333. (6)

A plan and illustration of Ruborough Camp by Burrow are present, together with a short description. (7)

ST 227335. Ruborough. Listed in gazetteer as a multivallate hillfort with widely spaced ramparts covering 1.9ha. (8)

Ruborough Camp; scheduled as a large univallate hillfort. (9)

Ruborough Camp was surveyed at a scale of 1: 1000 using EDM and differential GPS as part of the EH archaeological survey of the Quantock Hills AONB. The hillfort earthworks are well preserved and comprise a triangualr enclosure with an outwork to the west, linked to the enclosure. In the historic period, Ruborough Camp was part of Willoughby Farm and a barn was constructed in the hillfort ditch. Full details of the survey are contained in the EH survey report (10, 11).

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" (Prov) 1962

( 2) Somerset archaeology and natural history : the proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society

Proc Somerset Archaeol Nat Hist Soc 49 (2) 1903 pp173-182 (H St George Gray)

( 3) The Victoria history of the counties of England

Victoria County History Somerset Vol 2 1911 p483 plan

( 4) Journal of the British Archaeological Association

J British Archaeol Assoc 13 1857 p294 (Rev J W Collins)

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JP 28-OCT-64

( 6) General reference

Englsih Heritage County of Somerset SAM listing 31-DEC-1987 p14

( 7) General reference

Ancient Earthworks and Camps of Somerset 1924 pp68-69 (E J Burrow)

( 8) by A H A Hogg 1979 British hillforts : an index

BAR British series1 (1974) - 62 Page(s)199

( 9) General reference

English Heritage SAM Amendment 9.11.93

(10) Field Investigators Comments

Riley, H 2003 EH Field Investigation

(11) General reference

Riley, H 2004 Ruborough Camp, Broomfield, Somerset. An Iron Age hillfort and outwork. EH Report.

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