Horsenden Hill

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) Staying in London (well, technically Middlesex) again, this site sits between Sudbury Town & Perivale tube stations and is now adjacent to Sudbury Golf Club. Apparently, the climb-up is worth it. This possible hillfort but more likely a settlement at an elevation of 84 meters above sea level has been speculated for years due to the massive amounts of Iron Age pottery found, mainly at the slumping west-side of the hill, which exposed a lot of material. An enamelled chariot lynchpin (AD 40-70), Mesolithic & Neolithic worked flint, Bronze Age and Roman then Medieval pottery sherds have also been recovered. Excavated in 1973, 1987 and 1995. Probably named during Saxon times as it was originally called ‘Horsingdon’, where ‘don’ means hill-fortress in Saxon. Site used in WW2 as an anti-aircraft battery. Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Catuvellauni or Atrebates (Scheduled Monument) [Any descriptive text is attributed to the Atlas of Hillforts & Wikipedia websites and any associated archaeological descriptions online which will be credited accordingly.]