Location
- Atlas number
- EN3020 (3020)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Historic county
- Cambridgeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wimblington
- National Grid reference
- TL 4480 9301
- Latitude
- 52.51641
- Longitude
- 0.13237
- Altitude
- 2 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort and marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 9.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 9.6 ha, 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1980-1985); Geophysical Survey (1980-1985); Excavation (1990-1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1012539
- HER
- Cambridgeshire 6033
- National record
- record TL 4 9 SW 1; monument 372473
- Wikidata
- Q31113789
Sources
References
- Jackson, R.P.J and Potter, T.W. 1996. Excavations at Stonea, Cambridgeshire 1980-85. London: British Museum Press.
- Malim, T. 1992. Stonea Camp, Wimblington. An Iron Age Fort in the Fens. Interim report. Cambridgeshire County Council Archaeological Field Unit Report No. 71.
- Malim, T. 2005. Stonea and the Roman Fens. Tempus.
- Salzman, L.F. (ed). 1948. The Victoria history of the county of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. Volume two, 46-7.