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Wardy Hill
Cambridgeshire, England · Atlas EN3032
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3032 (3032)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Historic county
- Cambridgeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coveney
- National Grid reference
- TL 4721 8197
- Latitude
- 52.41593
- Longitude
- 0.16406
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and marsh fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Blocked (West); Simple Gap (West); Other Forms (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (1993); Excavation (1991-1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cambridgeshire 9497
- National record
- record TL 4 8 SE 19; monument 1147640
- Wikidata
- Q31113758
Sources
References
- Evans, C. 2002. Metalwork and 'cold claylands'; pre-Iron Age occupation on the Isle of Ely, in Lane, T. and Coles, J. (eds), Through wet and dry. Essays in honour of David Hall. Lincolnshire Archaeological and Heritage Reports 5, WARP Occasional Paper 17, 33-53.
- Evans, C. 2003. Power and Island Communities. Excavations at the Wardy Hill Ringwork, Coveney, Ely. East Anglian Archaeology Report 103.