Cadbury Castle, Somerset

Cadbury Castle is an Iron Age mounting ten kilometers north east of Yeovil in Somerset, next to South Cadbury, 153 meters above sea level. Some historians, including John Leland in 1542, the legendary castle Camelot suspected here, the seat of power of King Arthur.

Cadbury Castle, which was originally a settlement from the Neolithic and Bronze Age, was fixed during the Iron Age around 500 BC. The attachment, only a wooden wall, was gradually replaced by stone. Another ditch and a Schanz system were connected 250-58 BC by complicated inputs and passages together. Within the fort were houses, granaries, workshops and stables. Cadbury Castle was a political, commercial, and probably also a religious center. In case of danger, the population of the surrounding area in the castle could seek shelter.

During the Roman conquest of Britain, in the years 43 and 44 AD, the inhabitants Cadbury Castles offered no resistance. Cadbury Castle seemed, however, 30 years later a center of freedom movement to have become. The Romans destroyed Cadbury Castle. 500 years remained deserted the place until it was fixed again in the early Middle Ages, perhaps by the legendary King Arthur.

The place was abandoned some time later. In winter 1009/1010 the English king Æthelred had built there a royal coin.