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Langdon Hills
Essex, England · Atlas EN3617
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3617 (3617)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Essex
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Basildon
- National Grid reference
- TQ 6777 8616
- Latitude
- 51.54933
- Longitude
- 0.41834
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1966); 1st Identified Written Reference (1971); Earthwork Survey (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Essex 5173
- National record
- record TQ 68 NE 10; monument 414066
- Wikidata
- Q31117508
Sources
References
- Brown, N. and Buckley, D. 1984-5. Langdon Hills. Essex Archaeol Hist,105-8
- Couchman, C.R. 1976. Work Undertaken by Essex County Council Archaeology Section, 1974-76, Essex Archaeol Hist, 8, 149-152
- Gelling, M. 1978. Signposts to the Past: Placenames and the History of England. London
- Hoares, R.E. 1971. Langdon Hills - "The Park". Panorama. Jnl Thurrock Local Hist Soc. 14, 57-8
- Isserlin, R. 1995. Analytical field survey at two Essex 'hill forts': South Weald Camp and Langdon Hill. Essex Archaeol Hist, 26, 40-52
- Isserlin, R. 1995. South Weald Camp, Brentwood and Langdon Hills, Basildon. Analytical Earthwork Survey. Essex County Council Field Archaeology Group. Unpublished
- Rivet, A.L.F. and Smith, C. 1979.The place-names of Roman Britain. London, (reprinted by Book Club Associates, 1981)