Worlebury Camp, the Glossary

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1. 62 relations: Archaeological site, Ashmolean Museum, Axbridge, Barley, Bead-rim pottery, Bedrock, Belgae, Birnbeck Pier, Black Mountains, United Kingdom, Bracelet, Breastwork (fortification), Brecon Beacons, Bristol and Exeter Railway, Bristol Channel, Bronze Age, Calamine, Casting, Celtic Britons, Charles William Dymond, Defensive wall, Dunkery Hill, Forestry Commission, Gaels, Galena, Glastonbury type pottery, Heritage at Risk Register, Hillfort, Historic England, Honorius (emperor), Hut circle, Iron Age, Javelin, Kewstoke, Limpet, List of hillforts and ancient settlements in Somerset, Local nature reserve, Mendip Hills, Natural England, North Somerset, Pea, Plowshare, Prehistoric storage pits, Quarry, River Perry, Roman Britain, Roman currency, Sand Bay, Sand Point and Middle Hope, Scheduled monument, Seed, ... Expand index (12 more) »

2. Scheduled monuments in North Somerset

Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.

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Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum.

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Axbridge

Axbridge is a town in Somerset, England, on the River Axe, near the southern edge of the Mendip Hills.

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Barley

Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.

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Bead-rim pottery

Bead-rim pottery refers to the presence of a rounded molding on the lip of a jar, bowl, or dish, both to add strength and assist in handling.

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Bedrock

In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet.

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Belgae

The Belgae were a large confederation of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel, the west bank of the Rhine, and the northern bank of the river Seine, from at least the third century BC.

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Birnbeck Pier

Birnbeck Pier, also known as the 'Old Pier', is a pier situated on the Bristol Channel in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England, approximately south-west of Bristol.

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Black Mountains, United Kingdom

The Black Mountains (Y Mynydd Du or sometimes Y Mynyddoedd Duon) are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the England–Wales border into Herefordshire.

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Bracelet

A bracelet is an article of jewellery that is worn around the wrist.

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Breastwork (fortification)

A breastwork is a temporary fortification, often an earthwork thrown up to breast or shoulder height to provide protection to defenders firing over it from a standing position.

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Brecon Beacons

The Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) are a mountain range in Wales.

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Bristol and Exeter Railway

The Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.

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Bristol Channel

The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren, literal translation: "Severn Sea") is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales (from Pembrokeshire to the Vale of Glamorgan) and South West England (from Devon, Somerset to North Somerset).

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Calamine

Calamine, also known as calamine lotion, is a medication made from powdered calamine mineral that is used to treat mild itchiness.

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Casting

Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify.

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Celtic Britons

The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

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Charles William Dymond

Charles William Dymond (4 August 1832 – 7 February 1915) was an English civil engineer and antiquarian.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Dunkery Hill

Dunkery Beacon at the summit of Dunkery Hill is the highest point on Exmoor and in Somerset, England.

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Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England.

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Gaels

The Gaels (Na Gaeil; Na Gàidheil; Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

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Galena

Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide (PbS).

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Glastonbury type pottery

Glastonbury type pottery is a form of Iron Age pottery derived from earlier Gaulish art of the middle La Tène period.

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Heritage at Risk Register

An annual Heritage at Risk Register is published by Historic England.

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Hillfort

A hillfort is a type of fortified refuge or defended settlement located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Honorius (emperor)

Honorius (9 September 384 – 15 August 423) was Roman emperor from 393 to 423.

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Hut circle

In archaeology, a hut circle is a circular or oval depression in the ground which may or may not have a low stone wall around it that used to be the foundation of a round house.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Javelin

A javelin is a light spear designed primarily to be thrown, historically as a ranged weapon.

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Kewstoke

Kewstoke is a civil parish and village in Somerset, England, within the unitary authority of North Somerset, located next to the strip of coast called Sand Bay.

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Limpet

Limpets are a group of aquatic snails with a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot.

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List of hillforts and ancient settlements in Somerset

Somerset is a ceremonial county in South West England. Worlebury Camp and List of hillforts and ancient settlements in Somerset are hill forts in Somerset.

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Local nature reserve

Local nature reserve (LNR) is a statutory designation for certain nature reserves in Great Britain.

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Mendip Hills

The Mendip Hills (commonly called the Mendips) is a range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England.

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Natural England

Natural England is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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North Somerset

North Somerset is a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England.

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Pea

Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species.

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In agriculture, a plowshare (US) or ploughshare (UK) is a component of a plow (or plough).

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Prehistoric storage pits

Storage pits are underground cists that were used historically to protect the seeds for the following year's crops, and to stop surplus food from being eaten by insects and rodents.

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Quarry

A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground.

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River Perry

The River Perry is a river in Shropshire, England.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Roman currency

Roman currency for most of Roman history consisted of gold, silver, bronze, orichalcum and copper coinage.

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Sand Bay

Sand Bay is a strip of coast in North Somerset bordered to the south by Worlebury Hill and to the north by Sand Point and Middle Hope.

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Sand Point and Middle Hope

Sand Point in Somerset, England, is the peninsula stretching out from Middle Hope, an biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.

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Scheduled monument

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

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Seed

In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa).

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Severn Estuary

The Severn Estuary (Aber Hafren) is the estuary of the River Severn, flowing into the Bristol Channel between South West England (from North Somerset, Bristol and South Gloucestershire) and South Wales (from Cardiff, Newport to Monmouthshire).

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Sling (weapon)

A sling is a projectile weapon typically used to hand-throw a blunt projectile such as a stone, clay, or lead "sling-bullet".

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Spindle (textiles)

A spindle is a straight spike, usually made from wood, used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn.

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Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire

The Sugar Loaf, sometimes called Sugar Loaf (Mynydd Pen-y-fâl or Y Fâl), is a hill situated north-west of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales and sits within the Brecon Beacons National Park.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Western Roman Empire

In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, collectively, during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a separate, independent imperial court.

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Weston Bay

Weston Bay is an inlet of the Bristol Channel in North Somerset, England.

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Weston Museum

Weston Museum is a museum in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England.

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Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare, also known simply as Weston, is a seaside town and civil parish in the North Somerset unitary authority area in the county of Somerset, England.

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Worle

Worle is a village in the civil parish of Weston-Super-Mare, in the North Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England.

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Worlebury Hill

Worlebury Hill is the name given to an upland area lying between the flatlands of Weston-super-Mare and the Kewstoke area of North Somerset, England. Worlebury Camp and Worlebury Hill are hill forts in Somerset.

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See also

Scheduled monuments in North Somerset

• Aveline's Hole
• Backwell Hillfort
• Banwell Camp
• Burgh Walls Camp
• Burrington Camp
• Cadbury Camp
• Cadbury Hill
• Castle Batch
• Cleeve Toot
• Conygar Hillfort
• Dinghurst fort
• Dolebury Warren
• Elborough Hill
• Elms colliery
• Fairy Toot
• Gatcombe, Somerset
• List of scheduled monuments in North Somerset
• Littleton gunpowder works
• Locking Castle
• Nailsea Glassworks
• Shiplate Slait
• Steep Holm
• Stokeleigh Camp
• Taps Combe Camp
• Wain's Hill
• Walton Common
• Woodspring Priory
• Worlebury Camp

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlebury_Camp

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