Home / England / Hertfordshire / Caley Wood

Caley Wood

Hertfordshire, England · Atlas EN1824

Location

Atlas number
EN1824 (1824)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Hertfordshire
Historic county
Hertfordshire
Parish, community, or townland
Little Hadham
National Grid reference
TL 4205 2146
Latitude
51.87409
Longitude
0.06395
Altitude
107 m

Form and condition

Type
partial contour fort
Condition
Extant and Likely destroyed
Morphology
univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Number of ditches
1
Enclosed area
4.7 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
ridge
Aspect
south
Land use
woodland

Dating

Dating
400 BC–AD 50
Dating reliability
C - Low

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Earthwork Survey (2009)

Identifiers

HER
Hertfordshire MHT122
National record
record TL 4 2 SW 9; monument 370450
Wikidata
Q31118150

Sources

References

  1. Haselgrove, C. and Fitzpatrick, A. In the footsteps of Caesar: the archaeology of the first Roman invasions of Britain, see: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/research/projects/footsteps-of-caesar [accessed November 2016].
  2. Landon, M R J. 2010. Bromley Hall and Caley Wood fieldwork 2009. HER internal report.
  3. Williamson, T. 2010. The origins of Hertfordshire. Hatfield: Hertfordshire Publications, p.35-6.