More information : [Name centred at ST 5100 7470] Camp. [T.I.]
Detail on map suggests rectangular earthwork. (1)
"A second camp is half a mile to the east-south-east' of
Portbury Camp, Conygar Hill. (2)
The area concerned is a plateau-like hilltop with fairly steep
natural slopes on all sides except the north. The only
earthwork of any significance comprises 60.0m of a bank
orientated ESE-WNW, centred at ST 5097 7470. It is 5.0m wide
overall, and up to 0.7m high, with a strong content of stones.
There is no outer ditch. No southerly turn can be traced, but
if it formerly did so it would result in a rectangular
enclosure bounded on the S. and W. by natural slopes.
Except for its breadth the bank could be the remains of an old
field boundary.
At the highest point on the plateau at ST 5094 7467, there is
an artificial mound of earth, 8.0m in diameter and 0.8m. high,
with a flat top. From its position it could be a barrow or a
windmill mound, but it is ditchless, and there is no trace of a
cross-tree depression.
At ST 5095 7467 there is a circular pit 7.5m. in diameter, 0.5m
deep on the E. and 0.3m deep on the W. It is grass covered, and
would seem unlikely to be a pond or a quarry pit.
The origin and purpose of all these earthworks is obscure. The
bank may be that accepted on the OS 1" 1830 as part of a camp,
and it may be that this publication has given rise to the
further acceptance in 2.
Surveyed at 1/2500. (3)
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