More information : [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) Additional reference (8)
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