Weston-super-Mare: Worlebury hillfort
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Weston-super-Mare: Worlebury hillfort
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 9 Mar 2006
Recent tree clearance of part of the 10-acre site, in the hands of North Somerset Council, has revealed some of the 93 storage pits first discovered in the 1850s, when the site was excavated by a group of antiquarians. Grain was found in a number of the pits, which are unusually large at 6 to 8 feet in diameter and typically 6 feet deep
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Image Location
Latitude
51.3565
Longitude
-2.988005
