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* [http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/maps/os.shtml?x=371500&y=160500 entry in the Gazetter of all British Hills, showing the Ordnance Survey map and contours] |
* [http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/maps/os.shtml?x=371500&y=160500 entry in the Gazetter of all British Hills, showing the Ordnance Survey map and contours] |
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* [http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=372352&y=161036&z=3&dn=598&tl=TP2909+-+Duncorn+Hill Duncorn hill street map] |
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Revision as of 15:20, 8 March 2011
Duncorn Hill is a rounded hill by the Fosse Way, on the limestone plateau south of Bath in Somerset. Its name is from the Celtic din for fort and corn meaning horn-shaped.[1]
There may have been a Bronze Age and Iron Age hill fort there.[2][3] Field investigations on the fort were made in 1966,[4] but no evidence was found. The scarps which had been seen from the road and were thought to provide evidence of a man made structure were found to be natural geological formations. There was also no sign of the cairn or pile of stones which had been described in the 18th century.[5]
The hill contains fuller's earth and these deposits have been analysed for their content of fossil shellfish.[6]
References
- ^ David Higgins (2006), The Bristol region in the sub-Roman and early Anglo-Saxon periods, Historical Association
- ^ Field investigations
- ^ Geology of East Somerset and the Bristol coal-fields. Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Frank Rutley, Robert Etheridge. 1876. pp. 126, 131, 261.
- ^ "Duncorn Hill". Fortified England. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ "Monument No. 204516". Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
- ^ William Stuart Mckerrow (February 1953), "Variation in the Terebratulacea of the Fuller's Earth Rock", Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 109: 97–124, doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1953.109.01-04.06
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