Wilbury Hill Camp

Wilbury Hill Camp is a late Bronze Age (c.700 BC) hillfort to the SW of Letchworth Hertfordshire (Grid Reference: TL20213245). It and Arbury Banks near Ashwell it are two of a band of six similar hillforts along the northern Chilterns. The site is marked by two circular defences formed by single banks and external ditches. Although these are no longer conspicuous on the ground,although distinct cropmarks generated by the buried features have beenrecorded by aerial photography since the 1950s.

During the Middle Iron Age (c.400 BC), more substantial banks wereconstructed.

A large number of Roman coins were collected by the local antiquarian WilliamRansome when the extreme northern corner of the enclosure was quarriedfor railway ballast in the mid-19th century. A selection of these are displayed at Letchworth Museum. [ [http://www.magic.gov.uk/rsm/29387.pdf English Heritage] ]

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* [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=7834 The Megalithic Portal]
* [http://www.eaareports.demon.co.uk/Assessment%20Iron%20Age.pdf East Anglian Archaeology Report]