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Dowsborough Camp (or Danesborough or Dawesbury) is an on the near in , England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Monument. The fort and associated round barrow has been added to the Heritage at Risk Register due to vulnerability to vehicle damage and erosion.


Situation
The site is at a height of 1115' (340 metres) on an easterly spur from the main Quantock ridge, with views north to the , and east over the valley of the . The fort has an oval shape, with a single rampart and ditch ( ) following the contours of the hill top, enclosing an area of 6¾ acres (2.7 hectares). The main entrance is to the east, towards , with a simpler opening to the north-west, aligned with a ridgeway leading down to Holford. The Lady's Fountain springs are in the to the west. A to the south connects the hill to the main Stowey ridge, where a linear earthwork known as Dead Woman's Ditch cuts across the spur. This additional rampart would have provided an extra line of defence against attack from the main Quantock ridge to the west, and it could have been a tribal boundary.


Saxon era
In Saxon times, 's military road, the , ran up from , Cannington (a possible site of the Battle of Cynwit) and , along the present course of the Stowey road, across Dead Woman's Ditch to Crowcombe Park Gate, south along the main ridge of the Quantocks to Triscombe Stone, then west across the valley to the and . Dumnonia and the Valley of the Parret, Rev. W.H.P. Greswell (1922) The road connected a series of forts and lookout posts, which allowed Alfred's armies to move along the coast to cover movements at sea and forestall any raids ashore.
(1969). 9780709111580, Robert Hale.
The path from Dowsborough to the Herepath is called Great Bear Path, and this is taken to be a corruption of Great Herepath, which suggests that Dowsborough could have been a Saxon lookout over the .


See also


Further reading
  • A Field Guide to Somerset Archaeology, Lesley and Roy Adkins (1992)


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