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War Ditches
Cambridgeshire, England · Atlas EN3024
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3024 (3024)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Historic county
- Cambridgeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cherry Hinton, Cambridge City
- National Grid reference
- TL 48397 55577
- Latitude
- 52.17963
- Longitude
- 0.16881
- Altitude
- 38 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- metal, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1893); 1st Identified Written Reference (1895); Excavation (1902); Excavation (1912); Excavation (1939); Excavation (2009); Excavation (1907-1908); Excavation (1949-1951); Excavation (1961-1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cambridgeshire 4963
- National record
- record TL 4 5 NE 16; monument 371231
- Wikidata
- Q31113720
Sources
References
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- Hughes, T.M., Macalister, R..A.S. and Duckworth, W.H.L. 1895. On a newly discovered dyke at Cherry Hinton. Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, 8, 317-30.
- Pickstone, A. and Mortimer, R.. 2012. War Ditches, Cherry Hinton: Revisiting an Iron Age Hillfort. Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, 101, 31-59.