| Worlebury Camp | |
|---|---|
 A picture of the present-day site | |
| Location | North Somerset, Somerset, England |
| Coordinates | 51°21′26.73″N 2°59′6.55″W / 51.3574250°N 2.9851528°W |
| Built | During the Iron Age |
| Architectural style(s) | British pre-Roman Architecture |
| Official name | Worlebury Camp: a large multivallate hillfort on Worlebury Hill |
| Designated | 22 February 1915 |
| Reference no. | 1011260 |
  Worlebury Camp shown within Somerset | |
Worlebury Camp (also known as Worlebury Hillfort) is the site of an Iron Age hillfort on Worlebury Hill, north of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. The fort was well defended with numerous walls, embankments and ditches around the site. Several large triangular platforms have been uncovered around the sides of the fort, lower down on the hillside. Nearly one hundred storage pits of various sizes were cut into the bedrock, and many of these contained human remains, coins, and other artefacts.[1] During the 19th and 20th centuries the fort suffered damage and was threatened with complete destruction on multiple occasions. Now, the site is a designated Scheduled monument.[2][3][4] It falls within the Weston Woods Local Nature Reserve which was declared to Natural England by the North Somerset Council in 2005.[5]
- ^ "Worlebury Camp". Roman-Britain.org. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
- ^ "Desk-Based Assessment of Land Adjacent to Numbers 2–10 Upper Kewstoke Road, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset" (PDF). Project: PJ 195. Mercian Archaeology. Retrieved 16 October 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Advice on Potential Landscape/Seascape and Visual Impacts of a Severn Barrage" (PDF). Land Use Consultants. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
- ^ "Worlebury Camp: a large multivallate hillfort on Worlebury Hill, Weston-Super-Mare - 1011260 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ "Weston woods LNR". Natural England. Retrieved 29 October 2010.