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Ham hill


Stoke sub Hamdon

Hamhill

Stoke sub Hamdon & Hamhill

Stoke sub hamdon has easy access located just off the A303 

Ham hill is a popular destination for walkers, cyclists and family's 

Ham hill offers incredible views of the South Somerset Moors, Exmoor and the Mendip Hills, Ham Hill is a 164 hectare (390 acres) country park centred on a huge Iron Age hill fort.

Ham Hill 


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Ham hill @ Stoke sub Hamdon

Ham Hill is steeped in history. This unusual landscape boasts steeply sloping Iron Age ramparts, a deserted medieval village and the peculiar ‘pockmarks’ of hilly mounds and dips left from Victorian quarrying on the hill. Indeed, the surrounding villages all boast picturesque cottages built from this glorious honey-hued stone.

Ham Hill forms part of Hamdon Hill, one of the largest Iron Agehill forts of its kind in Great Britain. Constructed between 600BC and 100BC, the earthworks are man-made slopes which follow the natural contours of the land. 

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The area enclosed by these defensive ramparts, approximately 200 acres, was a bustling settlement during the Iron Age, with roundhouses, trackways and field systems dividing up the flat top of the hillfort. The people farmed the land and traded for weapons and goods.

Despite its defences, the hillfort fell to the Roman invaders. In 1882 a horde of over 2000 Roman coins was found at Ham Hill and archaeological digs in the early 1900s discovered more coins, brooches, roof tiles and pottery. There is evidence of a Roman fort or military base near the present-day war memorial and also a 19-roomed villa in the field known as The Warren.

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