Elworthy Barrows
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| Location | Brompton Ralph, Somerset, England. |
| History | |
| Built | Iron Age |
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| Reference no. | 188401[1] |
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Elworthy Barrows is an unfinished Iron Age hill fort, rather than Bronze Age barrows,[2] which is designated a scheduled ancient monument (No:188401).[1][3] It is located in the civil parish of Brompton Ralph near Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England. It covers an area of 3.5 hectares (8.6 acres) and is surrounded by a bank and ditch.[4]
Background
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Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC.[5] The reason for their emergence in Britain, and their purpose, has been a subject of debate. It has been argued that they could have been military sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, sites built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and consequent pressure on agriculture. The dominant view since the 1960s has been that the increasing use of iron led to social changes in Britain. Deposits of iron ore were located in different places to the tin and copper ore necessary to make bronze, and as a result trading patterns shifted and the old elites lost their economic and social status. Power passed into the hands of a new group of people.[6] Archaeologist Barry Cunliffe believes that population increase still played a role and has stated "[the forts] provided defensive possibilities for the community at those times when the stress [of an increasing population] burst out into open warfare. But I wouldn't see them as having been built because there was a state of war. They would be functional as defensive strongholds when there were tensions and undoubtedly some of them were attacked and destroyed, but this was not the only, or even the most significant, factor in their construction".[7]
Construction
The hill fort is oval and 2.9 hectares in area.[8] It was enclosed in the 1830s and laid to pasture and last ploughed around 1943.[9] A polished stone axe was found at the site.[10]
World War II
During World War II searchlights were installed at the site,[11][12] and in 1996 it was evaluated before the construction of a new communications mast.[13]
See also
References
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- ^ Barrow, "Hllforts and hilltops 1000BC - 1000AD" in Aston and Burrow, The Archaeology of Somerset (1982)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Elworthy Barrows hillfort, Brompton Ralph". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Payne, Andrew; Corney, Mark; Cunliffe, Barry (2007), The Wessex Hillforts Project: Extensive Survey of Hillfort Interiors in Central Southern England, English Heritage, p. 1, ISBN 978-1-873592-85-4, archived from the original on 3 September 2009, retrieved 1 February 2011
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sharples, Niall M (1991), English Heritage Book of Maiden Castle, London: B. T. Batsford, pp. 71–72, ISBN 0-7134-6083-0
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Time Team: Swords, skulls and strongholds, Channel 4, 19 May 2008, archived from the original on 12 August 2011, retrieved 16 September 2009
- ^ Adkins, A Field Guide to Somerset Archaeology, 1992
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Elworthy Barrows Hillfort". Digital Digging. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 17 October 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Neolithic axe find, Elworthy Barrows, Brompton Ralph". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Searchlight site (Elworthy Barrows), E of Holcombe Water Cottage, Brompton Ralph". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Searchlight site (Elworthy Barrows), S of Old Holcombe Water Farm, Brompton Ralph". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Evaluation (1996), Elworthy Barrows hillfort, Brompton Ralph". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
