Arbury Banks (Hertfordshire)

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Wallburg Arbury Banks from the walkway to the southwest

Arbury Banks is a Wallenburg southwest of the village Ashwell in the English county of Hertfordshire .

Probably the first time there was in the late Bronze Age , i.e. 1000 BC. Until 700 BC BC, built a fortress. Arbury Banks is 90 meters above sea level and is one of six similar hill castles along the northern Chiltern Hills . Another of these hill fortes is Wilbury Hill Camp, southwest of Letchworth Garden City . During excavations in the 1850s, the horseshoe-shaped curtain wall of Arbury Banks with two opposite entrances - in the north-northwest and in the south-southeast - was discovered. Evidence of various facilities or buildings within the fort was also found.

Arbury Banks may have been the site of the Boudicca Rebellion , in the course of which a small Roman force devoured Boudicca's army.

The site is a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grahame A. Appleby: The Boudican Revolt: countdown to defeat . Hertfordshire Archeology and History. Volume 16 (2009). Pp. 57-65. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  2. ^ Arbury Banks Iron Age Hillfort . Historic England. Retrieved November 17, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Arbury Banks  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 55.9 ″  N , 0 ° 9 ′ 46 ″  W.