1.  The British camps are numerous.  They are probably not the sites of permanent settlements, but were used for defensive purposes in times of war.  The most notable are Worlebury (near Weston), Combe Down and Solsbury (near Bath), Hamdon, Brent Knoll, Masbury, Dolbury, Stantonbury, and the three Cadburys (near Sparkford, Tickenham, and Yatton respectively).  Worlebury is remarkable for having a large number of pits sunk into the ground within its rampart. (Castle Neroche and Castle Orchard, which have usually been regarded as of British origin, are now thought to owe their fortifications to the Normans.)

The remains of megalithic circles occur at Stanton Drew.  There are barrows at Stoney Littleton, Dundry, and Priddy.  There is a lake-village of the crannog type at Godney.  Other antiquities of British origin that deserve notice are the Wansdyke and Pen Pits (the latter near Penselwood).

2.  The most interesting Roman remains are at Bath, where a splendid system of baths has been brought to light. Villas and other buildings of Roman origin have been discovered at Whitestaunton and Wadeford (near Chard), Whatley (near Frome), Wellow, Newton St Loe, Bratton Seymour, Pitney, Camerton, etc.  Traces of Roman mines (such as tools and pigs of lead) have been found at Priddy and Blagdon, and an amphitheatre at Charterhouse-on-Mendip.  Many of the British camps enumerated above have at different times been occupied by the Roman legions.

3.  The ancient ecclesiastical buildings of Somerset are very interesting.  Some of them, chiefly monastic foundations, are more or less in ruins—­Glastonbury, Cleeve, Woodspring, Muchelney, Stavordale, Hinton Charterhouse.  Of those that are still used for religious purposes, the most conspicuous are Wells Cathedral and Bath Abbey.  But the parish churches, in their way, are almost as remarkable.  Their excellence is largely due to the splendid building-stone which abounds in different parts of the county, especially near Bath, Dundry, Doulting, and Ham Hill.  Of Saxon architecture Somerset has no example such as Wilts possesses in Bradford, though some of the ancient fonts may possibly be of pre-Norman origin.  The majority of early fonts, however, are Norman, and the number of them shows how thickly Norman churches once covered the country.  But surviving instances of churches wholly or mainly Norman are rare:  the best examples are Compton Martin, Christon, and Stoke-sub-Hamdon.  There is herring-bone work at Elm and Marston Magna.  Of Norman chancel arches and doorways retained when the body of the church has been re-constructed the examples are numerous; noteworthy are those at Glastonbury, Milborne Port, Stoke-Courcy, Lullington, Huish Episcopi, Portbury, St Catherine, South Stoke, Flax Bourton, Langridge, Clevedon, Chewton Mendip, Englishcombe.  Wells Cathedral contains some splendid Transitional work, of which there are also specimens at Clutton.