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Ridgeon's Gardens, Castle Hill
Cambridgeshire, England · Atlas EN3096
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3096 (3096)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Historic county
- Cambridgeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cambridge
- National Grid reference
- TL 4440 5930
- Latitude
- 52.21300
- Longitude
- 0.11255
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.3 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1956-1988)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cambridgeshire 1222292
- Wikidata
- Q31113771
Sources
References
- Alexander, J. and Pullinger, J. 1999. Roman Cambridge: excavations on Castle Hill, Cambridge, 1956-1988. Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, 88.