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West Wickham Common
Greater London Authority, England ยท Atlas EN3891
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3891 (3891)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Greater London Authority
- Historic county
- Kent
- National Grid reference
- TQ 3985 6522
- Latitude
- 51.36879
- Longitude
- 0.00768
- Altitude
- 96 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, inland promontory, and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1610); Earthwork Survey (1881); Earthwork Survey (1940); Excavation (1941); Earthwork Survey (1981); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1892-1905)
Identifiers
- HER
- Greater London MLO17289
- National record
- record TQ 36 NE 1; monument 403989
- Wikidata
- Q31055922
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1981. The Causewayed Enclosure and the Elizabethan Redoubt on West Wickham Common. Archaeol Cantiana , 97, 71-8
- Hogg, A. H. A., O'Neil B. H. St J., and Stevens, C. E. 1941. Earthworks on Hayes and West Wickham Commons, Archaeol Cantiana, 54, 28-34
- Oswald, A. 1995. An Enclosure On West Wickham Common, London Borough Of Bromley. RCHME. Unpublished
- Page, W. 1908. The Victoria County History of the County of Kent. Vol I, 402-3
- Petrie, F. 1880. Notes on Kentish Earthworks. Archaeol Cantiana, 13, 8-17
- Wessex Archaeology 2011. West Wickham Common, Coney Hall, Bromley, Heritage Conservation Plan.