More information : Some of the earthworks on the southern side of the
hill fort (ST 24 SW 6) may be due to rifle butts and golf courses
but may be modifications of ancient features, or military
practice earthworks. (1)
The golf course and rifle range (OS 1:2500 1904), appear to be
the cause of very few of the earthworks in the area, centred at
ST 24614026. The majority are banks and lynchets, up to 2.7m
high, of a field system; others appear to be the result of
quarrying. (See air photo CPE/UK/1924/4005 on illustration
card). (2)
The extent of the best preserved part of the field system is now
limited to two or three small fields (centred ST 24804030) of
squarish nature, bounded by turf-covered banks 0.6m high and
lynchets up to 2.7m high.
An association with the settlement (ST 24 SW 6) seems probable,
but whether the field system is of Iron Age, Roman, or post Roman
date, is speculative. (3)
Scheduled as 'Settlement'. '...probably the remains of an extra
mural hillfort settlement probably of Roman and possibly of Dark
Age date. The earthworks are linked to and are apparently
secondary to the outer bank of the hillfort. Iron Age and R-B
pottery has been found at 3 different places on the earthworks,
and 2 rectangular house sites can be seen...' (4)
In 1976 Ian Burrow carried out a field survey of the earthworks
south of Cynwit Castle hillfort. These seemed to indicate a field
system of small square fields which may well be of post-Roman
date associated with the nearby cemetery (ST 24 SE 5). (5)
Ian Burrow's plan reproduced. (6)
St 246 403. Settlement SE of cannington Park. SAM No 459. (7) |