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Gatesbury Wood, Braughing
Hertfordshire, England · Atlas EN1833
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1833 (1833)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hertfordshire
- Historic county
- Hertfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Braughing
- National Grid reference
- TL 394239
- Latitude
- 51.89669
- Longitude
- 0.02588
- Altitude
- 84 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1938); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- HER
- Hertfordshire MHT110
- National record
- record TL 3 2 SE 22; monument 368019
- Wikidata
- Q31118154
Sources
References
- Crawford, O.G.S. 1938. Hertfordshire place-names. Antiquity xii (December 1938), 432-6.
- Potter, T.W. and Trow, S.D. 1988. Puckeridge-Braughing, Herts: the Ermine Street excavations, 1971-1972. The late Iron Age and Roman settlement. Hertfordshire Archaeol, 10.