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Arbury Banks
Hertfordshire, England · Atlas EN1826
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1826 (1826)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hertfordshire
- Historic county
- Bedfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ashwell
- National Grid reference
- TL 2612 3870
- Latitude
- 52.03242
- Longitude
- -0.16291
- Altitude
- 84 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- arable and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, and animal bones
- Investigations
- Excavation (1856); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008981
- HER
- Hertfordshire MHT26
- National record
- record TL 2 3 NE 9; monument 365512
- Wikidata
- Q31118160
Sources
References
- Appleby, G. 2009. The Boudican revolt: countdown to defeat. Hertfordshire Archaeol Hist, 16, 57-65.
- Beldam, J. 1856-9. Memoir on some excavations... recently made at the Arbury Banks, near Ashwell, Hertfordshire. Proc Soc Antiq. 1st series, vol.4, 285-91.
- Page, W. (ed). 1908. The Victoria County History of Hertfordshire. Volume II, 105