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Horsenden Hill
Greater London Authority, England · Atlas EN3892
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3892 (3892)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Greater London Authority
- Historic county
- Middlesex
- National Grid reference
- TQ 1620 8440
- Latitude
- 51.54649
- Longitude
- -0.32562
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1926); Other (1976); Geophysical Survey (1987); Other (1987); Excavation (1995); Excavation (1973-1977); Excavation (1987-1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001970
- HER
- Greater London MLO4511; MLO427
- National record
- record TQ 18 SE 3; monument 398121
- Wikidata
- Q31056060
Sources
References
- Bloice, B. 1976. Excavation Round-up 1975. Horsenden Hill. London Arch. 2/1976/14, 370
- Bloice, B. 1974. Excavation Round-up 1973. Horsenden Hill. London Arch. 2/1974/6, 134
- Girardon, S. and Heathcote, J. 1988. Excavation Round-up 1987. London Arch. 5/1988/15, 411
- Potter, S. 1926. The Story of Willesden, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 21
- Richardson, B. 1977. Excavation Round-up 1976. Horsenden Hill. London Arch 3/1977/2, 37
- Seeley, D. 1995. GLSMR Archaeological Report Form concerning a watching brief at Horsenden Hill. Museum of London Archaeology Service. Unpublished
- Sharpe, M. 1932. Middlesex in British, Roman and Saxon Times, Methuen & Co. 7