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Hertfordshire HER
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| HHER Number: | 1442 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | ROMAN FINDS, WILBURY HILL, LETCHWORTH |
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Summary - not yet available
| Grid Reference: | TL 202 325 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL23SW |
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| Parish: | Letchworth Garden City, North Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire |
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| Map: | Show location on Streetmap |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Roman - 50 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- BRACELET (Roman - 50 AD to 409 AD)
- COIN (Roman - 50 AD to 409 AD)
- PLUMB BOB (Roman - 50 AD to 409 AD)
- QUERN (Roman - 50 AD to 409 AD)
Protected Status
- SHINE: Wilbury Hill Hillfort
- Scheduled Ancient Monument 29387: SLIGHT UNIVALLATE HILLFORT ON WILBURY HILL
- Area of Archaeological Significance 88
Full description
Numerous Roman finds have been found at Wilbury Hill (see [63] for details of the hillfort) including a coin of Faustina noted by Camden and coins of Julius to Constans (referred to by Ransom as coins from Hitchin but which may have been found during excavations at the hillfort in 1848-50) <1>. Westell also refers to Roman material from Wilbury including 'two bronze bracelets, two bronze rings, a plummet of lead, two buckles, a loomweight or net sinker and a quern' now in Letchworth Museum <2>. Westell also records a burial from the area [4452].
OS Records (Index). SHT8223.
<1> Applebaum, E S, 1951, Excavations at Wilbury Hill, an Iron-Age hill-fort near Letchworth, Hertfordshire, 1933; Archaeol J 106, p12-45 (Article in serial). SHT858.
<2> Westell, W Percival, 1926, Roman and pre-Roman antiquities in Letchworth Museum; Trans East Herts Archaeol Soc 7/3, 258-81, - p280 (Article in serial). SHT10769.
Sources and further reading
| --- | Index: OS Records. |
| <1> | Article in serial: Applebaum, E S. 1951. Excavations at Wilbury Hill, an Iron-Age hill-fort near Letchworth, Hertfordshire, 1933; Archaeol J 106, p12-45. |
| <2> | Article in serial: Westell, W Percival. 1926. Roman and pre-Roman antiquities in Letchworth Museum; Trans East Herts Archaeol Soc 7/3, 258-81. - p280. |
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