Brent Knoll Camp

Brent Knoll Camp is an Iron Age Hill fort at Brent Knoll, 3km from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (No: 24001), and is now in the care of the National Trust.The hill is 137m high dominates the low surrounding landscape of the Somerset Levels and is visible from the M5 motorway.NameThe word 'knoll' usually means a small hill or hill-top. The origin of the name Brent is unclear, but one possibility is from a word meaning burnt in Old English, suggesting that the settlement was at some time burnt by the Danes. Another proposal is that the name comes from a Celtic term meaning "high place", or even from another Celtic word, briant, meaning law, as the law was anciently promulgated from high places. Another possibility is that the name of Brent simply derives from the local river, the Brent, which gives its name to a Somerset hundred.Brent Knoll HillThe hill consists of clays and limestone from the Jurassic era and geologically forms an outcrop of the nearby Mendip Hills.