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Brent Knoll Camp
Brent Knoll Camp is an Iron Age Hill fort at Brent Knoll, 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 high〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.brentknollvillage.info/ )〕 dominates the low surrounding landscape of the Somerset Levels and is visible from the M5 motorway.
==Name==
The 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.〔Sylvanus Urban, ed., ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' (1846), (p. 359 ): "The derivation from burning is not so extravagant, for such, we believe, is the authentic etymology of Brentwood, in Essex".〕 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.〔〔Benjamin Clarke, ''The British gazetteer, political, commercial, ecclesiastical'' (1852), p. 405: "The name is evidently derived from its being situated on the banks of the river Brent..."〕
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