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Monument Number 1465845
Hob Uid: 1465845
Location : North Somerset Clevedon
Grid Ref : ST3912970604
Summary : A Post Medieval pillow mound, visible as earthwork banks and ditches, was mapped from aerial photographs taken in 1946. Located on Wain's Hill, the pillow mound, centred at ST 3912 7060, consists of a subrectangular elongated earthwork bank, aligned NE-SW and about 29 metres long and 5 metres wide, around which is a ditch between 1 and 2 metres wide. Shown on the 1st edition of the 1:2500 scale OS map dated 1884-1885, the pillow mound is associated with two further pillow mounds about 65 metres to the WNW (ST 37 SE 40). The pillow mound is still visible in aerial photographs taken in 1985.
More information : A Post Medieval pillow mound, visible as earthwork banks and ditches, was mapped from aerial photographs taken in 1946. Located on the Iron Age promontory hillfort (ST 37 SE 1) on Wain's Hill, the pillow mound, centred at ST 3912 7060, consists of a subrectangular elongated earthwork bank, aligned NE-SW and about 29 metres long and 5 metres wide, around which is a ditch between 1 and 2 metres wide. Shown on the 1st edition of the 1:2500 scale OS map dated 1884-1885, the pillow mound is associated with two further pillow mounds about 65 metres to the WNW (ST 37 SE 40). The pillow mound is still visible in aerial photographs taken in 1985. (1-6)

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Source details : RAF CPE/UK/1869 3092 04-DEC-1946
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Source details : RAF F20/541/553 3036 04-JUN-1950
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Source details : RAF F22/58/1354 0043-0044 23-FEB-1954
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Source details : NMR OS/69382 105-106 31-JUL-1969
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Source details : NMR OS/85062 108-109 29-MAY-1985
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : 1:2500 Somerset 1884-1885
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Pillow Mound, Bank (Earthwork), Ditch
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 22852
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (North Somerset)
External Cross Reference Number : 4654
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : ST 37 SE 41
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Relationship type : General association

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Monument Number 1465845