Mendip Scheduled monuments in Somerset

st michael s church on summit of glastonbury tor.

mendip local government district covers largely rural area of 285 square miles (738 km) ranging mendip hills through on somerset levels. has population of approximately 11,000. administrative centre of district shepton mallet.

there 233 scheduled monuments in mendip. these include large number of bowl , round barrows , other neolithic, bronze , iron age tumuli such priddy circles , priddy 9 barrows , ashen hill barrow cemeteries. there several iron age hill forts on hill tops , lake villages on lowlands such meare , glastonbury lake villages. lake villages connected timber trackways such sweet track. there several roman sites particularly around charterhouse roman town , associated lead mining. later coal mining sites included in list.

two major religious sites in mendip @ glastonbury abbey , wells cathedral , precincts , dispersed residences, tithe barns , abbot s fish house figure prominently in list. prehistoric defensive features such ponter s ball dyke supplemented in medieval period motte-and-bailey castles such farleigh hungerford, nunney , fenny castle. commercial , industrial development represented old iron works @ mells , various market crosses. recent monuments world war ii bunkers , bombing decoys on black down highest point of mendip hills, appear on sedgemoor list site crosses boundary between districts.