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CONYGAR HILLFORT

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Earthwork remains of an Iron Age univallate hillfort with a pillow mound within the interior.

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[ST 49907510] CAMP [GT]. (1)

Conygar Hill, Portbury, is a small isolated hill with a flat
top, on which is a prehistoric fort, triangular in shape. The
sides of the hill are scarped, and there are the remains of a
c. 3 feet high bank on the south-west which was said, in the
early 19th c., to have encircled the entire hill. There is a
round barrow in the centre of the fort. [See AO/62/232/7 (4)]. (2-4)

Conygar Camp is applied to a small flat-topped hill with steep
slopes on the E. and S. sides. the N.W. side has been scarped
and there are Medieval or later terraces below. An intermittent,
low bank composed of earth and stone, and similar to an old
field boundary, is visible around the top. There ar two simple
entrances, at the N.E. and S.W. The camp is overlooked on the
east, and the defences appear weak for a hillfort; there is no
record of I.A. finds.

The "round barrow" is a crescentic mound 1.5 m. high on the N,
fading to ground level at the S.W.; it is very doubtful as a
barrow.

Surveyed at 1/2500. (5-6)

The internal mound within the defences may be a pillow mound,
hence the name 'Conygar', the original name possibly being
'Portbury'. (7)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1961

( 2) General reference

VCH 2 1911 479 (CH Bothamley)

( 3) General reference

Delineations of N.W. Somer. 1829. 255 ff (Rutter)

( 4) General reference

The Mystery of Wansdyke 1926 14 & 20 (Plan) (A. Major & E. Burrow)

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F1 NVQ 19-MAR-62

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F2 JP 19-FEB-65

( 7) General reference

BAR 91 1981 Hillfort Sett 1-8th Cents 251-2 (I. Burrow)

( 8) General reference

Ancient Ewks & Camps of Somerset 1924 64-5 plan illus (E Burrow)

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