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Wilbury Hill
Hertfordshire, England · Atlas EN1828
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1828 (1828)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hertfordshire
- Historic county
- Bedfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Letchworth Garden City
- National Grid reference
- TL 202 325
- Latitude
- 51.97801
- Longitude
- -0.25104
- Altitude
- 84 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-framed wall, other burning, and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- south and southwest
- Land use
- arable and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, roundhouses, and roads or tracks
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1835); Excavation (1933); Excavation (1959); 1st Identified Written Reference (1601-1700); Other (1950-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016410
- HER
- Hertfordshire MHT63
- National record
- record TL 2 3 SW 18; monument 365779
- Wikidata
- Q31118183
Sources
References
- Applebaum, E. S. 1951. Excavations at Wilbury Hill, an Iron Age Hillfort near Letchworth, Hertfordshire, 1933. Arch J, 106, 12-37
- Moss-Eccaardt, J. 1964. Excavations at Wilbury Hill an Iron Age Hill fort near Letchworth, Herts, 1959. Bedfordshire Archaeol J, 2, 34-46,