King's Castle
Wiveliscombe, GB
King's Castle is an Iron Age Hillfort 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) east of Wiveliscombe in Somerset, England. It is surrounded by two banks with a ditch between them. The inner wall ranges up to 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) high and the outer wall gets up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) high. Arrowheads, scrapers, and borer
s from as far back as the Neolithic period have been found at the site. A coin hoard of 1139 coins was found in a pot buried 0.30 metres (1 ft) deep. The site has been heavily damaged by repeated quarrying and ploughing.
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- The Square square · 2 km away
- The Town Hall town_hall · 2 km away
- Church of St James the Great chiese · 2 km away
- Abbotsfield monumenti · 2 km away
- Fitzhead Court and The Manor castelli · 3 km away
- Church of St Michael, Milverton chiese · 3 km away
- Gaulden Manor castelli · 4 km away