Ruborough Camp

 hillfort, scheduled ancient monument, iron age

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This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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The monument includes a large univallate hillfort situated on a triangular promontory of land in the eastern Quantock Hills. The fort is rectilinear with rounded corners, the shape being determined by the natural contours of the hill. The earthworks enclose 1.8ha, with a further 1.8ha defined on the western uphill side by an outer line of defences.
The main entrance to the fort faces downhill on the eastern tip of the earthworks, where a hollow way runs up the spine of the hill and through a short inturned passageway. A notable mounding of the southern rampart end here may represent a guard tower. There is a second entrance gap on the west through the uphill rampart, with a slight causeway across the ditch.
A writer in 1890 mentioned that 'a subterranean passage, 100 yards long, now filled in, gave the occupants of the camp access to a spring of water on the side of the hill