Mile Ditches

Bassingbourne

Scheduled Monument – Monument Number 368711

Prehistoric to Late Iron Age triple linear earthwork, possible Iron Age boundary. 

1856                            Excavated by EB Nunn.

1930’s                          Mostly ploughed out.

1940’s                          Levelled.

1972                            Field Investigation.

1978                            Excavated by G Burleigh, North Hertfordshire Museums Service.

1984                            Aerial photograph.

1988                            Surveyed and measured by English Heritage; Cambridgeshire County Council Archaeology Section.

1991                            Excavated by North Hertfordshire District Council Field Archaeology Section.