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The Aubreys
Hertfordshire, England · Atlas EN1829
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1829 (1829)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hertfordshire
- Historic county
- Hertfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Redbourn
- National Grid reference
- TL 095 112
- Latitude
- 51.78889
- Longitude
- -0.41395
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 7.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom and hillslope
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1974); Geophysical Survey (1995); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1982-1983); Excavation (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003520
- HER
- Hertfordshire MHT25
- National record
- record TL 0 1 SE 3; monument 359493
- Wikidata
- Q31118196
Sources
References
- Herts Advertiser. Articles on 25.6.82 and 12.8.83.
- Stansbie, D., Bashford, D. and Bridgman, R. 2012. From Mesolithic to motorway : the archaeology of the M1 (Junction 6a-10) Widening Scheme, Hertfordshire. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology Monograph 14.
- Stratascan. 1995. Report for St Albans Museums on a geophysical survey carried out on M1 field evaluation. Geophysical survey. RNO 129.
- West, S. 1995. The Aubrey's Enclosure, Redbourn, Hertfordshire. St Albans Museum Service (archaeological reports).