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Excavations at Cadbury-Camelot, 1966–70

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Leslie Alcock
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‘Cadbury Castle or Camelot’ is the name given by the Ordnance Survey to the 18-acre (c. 7-ha) multi-ramparted hillfort which stands above the villages of Sutton Montis and South Cadbury in the county of Somerset (NGR ST 6225). Abbreviated to Cadbury-Camelot, it serves conveniently to distinguish this fortthe scene of intensive excavations in 1966-70 from Cadbury Castle by Cadbury, Devon (NGR SS 9105), Cadbury Camp by Congresbury (NGR ST 4464), or various other Cadbury Camps and Castles.

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Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 181 , March 1972, pp. 29 - 38
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1972

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Footnotes

By permission of the Governing Body of Exeter College, Oxford, we print here the Marett Memorial Lecture for 1970–71. In it, the Director of the Cadbury-Camelot excavations examines some of the wider aspects of his work; and bearing in mind R. R. Marett's special interests, weaves a thread of anthropological speculation across the warp of archaeological fact.

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