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Hadley Wood
Greater London Authority, England ยท Atlas EN3933
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3933 (3933)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Greater London Authority
- Historic county
- Middlesex
- National Grid reference
- TQ 2627 9725
- Latitude
- 51.65984
- Longitude
- -0.17572
- Altitude
- 88 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1922); Excavation (1973); Earthwork Survey (1983); Excavation (1983); Excavation (1952-1953)
Identifiers
- HER
- Greater London MLO15580
- National record
- record TQ 29 NE 4; monument 401552
- Wikidata
- Q31055999
Sources
References
- Bloice, B. 1973. Excavation Round-up 1972. London Arch. 2/1973, 41
- Cunliffe, B. and Rowley, T. (eds) 1976. Oppida: the beginnings of urbanisation in Barbarian Europe, BAR Int Ser 11, 330.
- Renn, D.F. 1952-4. Hadley Wood: Earthwork.Trans East Hertfordshire Archaeol Soc, 87, 204-6
- Richardson, B. 1984. Excavation Round-up 1983. London Arch. 4/1984, 386
- Taylor, H.D. 1922. A Prehistoric Camp in Hadley Wood. Trans London Middlesex Archaeol Soc. 4, 97-9