Location
- Atlas number
- EN3088 (3088)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Peterborough
- Historic county
- Cambridgeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Newborough
- National Grid reference
- TF 1908 0729
- Latitude
- 52.65028
- Longitude
- -0.24122
- Altitude
- 4 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort and marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (1991); Earthwork Survey (1993); Other (1982-1983); Excavation (1992-1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006811
- HER
- Peterborough City 51313
- National record
- record TF 1 0 NE 17; monument 350093
- Wikidata
- Q31069482
Sources
References
- French, C. 1988. The South-West Fen Dyke Survey Project. Antiquity, 62, 343-8.
- French, C. and Pryor, F. 1993. The South-West Fen-dyke survey project 1982-1986. East Anglian Archaeolgy, 59.
- Hall, D. 1987. The Fenland Project No. 2. Fenland landscape and settlement between Peterborough and March. East Anglian Archaeology 35, 26-28.
- Malim, T. and McKenna, R. 1993. Borough Fen Ring-work: Iron Age Fort, Newborough, Cambridgeshire. Fenland Research, 8, 53-62.
- Malim, T. 2005. Stonea and the Roman Fens. Tempus.
- Oswald, A., 1994, The Iron Age enclosure at Borough Fen, Cambridgeshire: a survey by the RCHME, The Conduit 29, 45-6