 Birds such as willow warbler ("Phylloscopus trochilus"), garden warbler ("Sylvia borin") and whitethroat ("Sylvia communis") can be heard singing from the scrub areas.The site also falls within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and has commanding views of the Chew Valley.Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC.