Duncorn Hill

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Coordinates: 51°21′10″N 2°24′20″W / 51.3529°N 2.4056°W / 51.3529; -2.4056
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Duncorn Hill is located in Somerset
Duncorn Hill
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Duncorn Hil within Somerset

Duncorn Hill is an English, landmark, rounded

fort and corn meaning horn shaped.[2]

Geology

The northern slopes of Duncorn Hill, as seen from SE of Wilmington

The hill's bedrock is limestone of the Great Oolite Group[3] with deposits of fuller's earth[4] containing fossil shellfish.[5] This is typically covered with a free draining soil layer of 5–6 inches (13–15 cm), mostly brown or greyish brown but with some yellow patches.[6]

History

It has been speculated Duncorn Hill had been the site of a

hill fort.[7][8] Field investigations were undertaken in 1966, but no evidence of a fort was found.[9] The scarps previously thought to be part of a man-made structure were shown to be natural geological formations. Investigators found no evidence of the cairns described in 18th century descriptions.[10] Nevertheless in 1975, Ralph Whitlock wrote of Iron Age, occupied, hilltop earthworks.[11]

References

  1. ^ Appendix 8 Rural Landscapes of Bath and North East Somerset (PDF). 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2011. ...and Duncorn Hill. These are important landmarks within the area. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Higgins, David (2006), The Bristol region in the sub-Roman and early Anglo-Saxon periods, Historical Association
  3. Geological Survey of Great Britain. p. 97. Archived
    from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023 – via Google Books.
  4. Geological Survey of Great Britain
    . 1876. pp. 126, 131.
  5. S2CID 129156166
    .
  6. ^ Low, A James (1938). "Bath, Somerset". Journal of the South Eastern Agricultural College (41): 189–195.
  7. ^ "Monument NO. 204516". Pastscape. Historic England. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  8. ^ Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke; Rutley, Frank; Etheridge, Robert (1876). Geology of East Somerset and the Bristol coal-fields. pp. 126, 131, 261. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ "Duncorn Hill". Fortified England. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  10. ^ "Pastscape Monument No. 204516". English Heritage. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
  11. ^ Whitlock, Ralph (1975). Somerset. Batsford. p. 55.

51°21′10″N 2°24′20″W / 51.3529°N 2.4056°W / 51.3529; -2.4056


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