Location
- Atlas number
- EN3691 (3691)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Essex
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Little Hallingbury
- National Grid reference
- TL 4925 1784
- Latitude
- 51.83918
- Longitude
- 0.16498
- Altitude
- 69 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 12.5 ha
- Footprint
- 16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and timber-laced wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, lowland, and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1768); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Other (1950); Other (1973); Other (1976); Excavation (1959-1960); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002190
- HER
- Essex MEX181
- National record
- record TL 41 NE 14; monument 369962
- Wikidata
- Q31117557
Sources
References
- Assinder, G, 1976, Wallbury Dell, June. Essex HER Source ID SEX185.
- Black, E. W. 1990 Caesar's second invasion of Britain, Cassivellaunus and the Trinobantes. Essex Archaeol Hist 21, 1990 6-10
- Cunliffe, B. and Rowley, T. (eds) 1976. Oppida: the beginnings of urbanisation in Barbarian Europe, BAR Int Ser 11.
- Doubleday, H.A. 1903. Victoria County History, Essex, Vol I, 282
- Morant, P. 1768. The History and Antiquities of Essex.
- RCHME. 1921. Essex, II, 93-5.