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Church Hill, West Wycombe
Buckinghamshire, England · Atlas EN3441
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3441 (3441)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- West Wycombe
- National Grid reference
- SU 8275 9497
- Latitude
- 51.64740
- Longitude
- -0.80540
- Altitude
- 156 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, inland promontory, and spur
- Aspect
- south and west
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1908); Other (1970); Other (1972); Other (2000); Other (2001); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875-1876); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003261
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 1900000
- National record
- record SU 89 NW 1; monument 248687
- Wikidata
- Q31117426
Sources
References
- Farley, M. 1995. The Buckinghamshire Chilterns in Later Prehistory, in Chiltern Archaeology: recent work. A handbook for the next decade. (ed. R. Holgate). The Book Castle, Dunstable
- Page, W. (ed) 1908. The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, Vol. 2, 26
- Poore, D. 2000. St. Lawrence's Church, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Archaeological Watching Brief Report. Oxford Archaeological Unit. https://library.thehumanjourney.net/2136/1/WYSLC00_Pdfa.pdf. Accessed October 2015