Wilbury Hill Camp
Wilbury Hill Camp is a hill fort southwest of Letchworth Garden City in the English county of Hertfordshire . The complex from the late Bronze Age (around 700 BC) is one of a series of six similar hill fortifications along the northern Chiltern Hills and is a Scheduled Monument . The complex is characterized by two ring-shaped defenses, which are formed by individual walls and external ditches. Since the 1950s, aerial photographs have shown signs of vegetation that were caused by details buried there, even if they are no longer visible from the ground.
In the Middle Iron Age (approx. 400 BC) stronger ramparts were built.
The local historian William Ransome collected a large number of Roman coins when material for bedding railway tracks was removed from the northernmost corner of the enclosure in the mid-19th century . A selection can be seen in the Letchworth Museum.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Slight univallate hillfort on Wilbury Hill . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 39 ″ N , 0 ° 15 ′ 4 ″ W.