Cadbury Camp

Cadbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort in Somerset, England, near the village of Tickenham.

The name may mean "Fort of Cador" - Cado(r) being possibly the regional king or warlord controlling Somerset, Bristol, and South Gloucestershire, in the middle to late 5th century.

Geoffrey of Monmouth invented the title 'Duke of Cornwall' for Cador in his misleading History of the Kings of Britain.

[7][8] The hill fort was constructed during the Iron Age, probably by the local Dobunni tribe, however the details are not fully known.

[2][9] Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC.

[12] The fort, which covers about 7 acres (2.8 ha),[2] consisted of ditches and earth banks topped with a wooden fence in an elevated position above the marshy land below.

[4] Several of the finds were uncovered during excavations by Harold St George Gray in 1922, although the coin dating from around 370 was discovered in 1945 and a Romano-British relief in the inner defensive ditch in 1974.

Plan of earthworks at Cadbury Camp, Tickenham