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| HHER Number: | 2722 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | CROPMARKS OF RING DITCHES WITHIN WILBURY HILLFORT, LETCHWORTH |
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Summary
Possible Iron Age round houses
| Grid Reference: | TL 203 324 |
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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
- RING DITCH (Unknown date)
- ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)? (Earlier Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 800 BC to 101 BC)
Protected Status
- SHINE: Wilbury Hill Hillfort
- Area of Archaeological Significance 88
- Scheduled Ancient Monument 29387: SLIGHT UNIVALLATE HILLFORT ON WILBURY HILL
Full description
Cropmarks of at least seven small sub-circular single ditched enclosures, each about 15-20m across. See also [63, 4415]. They may be round houses, more or less contemporary with the hillfort defences.
CUCAP, Cropmarks of internal features within Wilbury Hill fort, Letchworth, PNO 3103 (Aerial Photograph). SHT14325.
CUCAP, Wilbury Hill hillfort and ring ditch, PNO 3065 (Aerial Photograph). SHT14287.
CUCAP, Wilbury Hill hillfort linear ditches & ring ditch, PNO 3067 (Aerial Photograph). SHT14289.
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. Wilbury Hill hillfort and ring ditch. PNO 3065. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. Wilbury Hill hillfort linear ditches & ring ditch. PNO 3067. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. Cropmarks of internal features within Wilbury Hill fort, Letchworth. PNO 3103. |
Related records
| 63 | Part of: HILLFORT, WILBURY HILL, LETCHWORTH (Monument) |
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