Wilbury Hill Camp

Wilbury Hill Camp is a late Bronze Age (about 700 BC) hill fort west of Letchworth in Hertfordshire [1]. It and Arbury Banks near Ashwell are two of a line of six similar hill forts along the northern Chilterns [1]. The site is marked by two circular defences formed by single banks and external ditches [1]. Although these are no longer conspicuous on the ground, distinct cropmarks generated by the buried features have been recorded by aerial photography since the 1950s [1]. During the Middle Iron Age (about 400 BC) more substantial banks were built [1]. Many Roman coins were collected by the local antiquarian William Ransome when the extreme northern corner of the enclosure was quarried for railway ballast in the mid-19th century [1].