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BERWICK

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The possible site of an Iron Age multivallate hillfort has now been built over. A 'camp' called Berwick, Berewyke, or Berewyck, adjoining Cottage Crescent and near Barrack Farm, was described in the early 19th century.

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(Area ST 74116255) A 'camp' called Berwick, Berewyke,
or Berewyck, adjoining Cottage Crescent and near Barrack Farm,
was described in the early 19th century as surrounded by a
strong 'vallum' (1) (2). More recent authorities (3) (4) (5)
refer to scarping of the edge of the plateau and other traces of
the camp but too mutilated by stone quarrying to be identifiable
with certainty.

The areas indicated by Phelps is now occupied by housing
estates, playing fields and old quarry workings used as a dump.
There are no recognisable remains of an earthwork.

Near the Wansdyke on the western part of Widcombe and Lyncombe
parish "... is a lofty eminence, called the Barracks, on which
are several tumuli. Underneath the hill stood the ancient village
of Berewyke, or Berwick, where according to tradition was a
church, the site of which was near the only remaining house,
called Barracks Farm. The tithes of this place belonged to the
vicar of St Mary de Stall in Bath" (ST 76 SW : 35).

A possible multivallate contour fort set on the plateua of Odd
Down. The area is now occupied by a factory and playing fields,
and there are no certain traces of earthworks of hillfort type.
Visited 16.4.73

SOURCE TEXT

( 1) General reference

Phelps. 1836. History of Somerset 1, plan 102, 103

( 2) Externally held archive reference

British Museum Add manuscripts 33669 f 11 (Rev J Skinner)

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

Scarth H M 6, 1855 Page(s)109-110

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

Scarth H M 22 (2), 1876 Page(s)21

( 5) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F1 GHP 03-FEB-66

( 7) General reference

Collinson J. 1791. History and Antiquities of Somerset 1, 171

( 8) by Ian Burrow 1981 Hillfort and hill-top settlement in Somerset in the first to eighth centuries A.D.

BAR British series1 (1974) - 91 Page(s)264-5

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