War Ditches

• Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
• Scheduled Monument
• Monument Number 371231

Early – Late Bronze Age or Iron Age circular enclosure, enclosing 2 ha and defended by a bank and ditch. Ditch measuring 8 m wide and 3.5 m deep. Site levelled and partially destroyed.

Roman pottery kiln found. Nearby Roman buildings took advantage of the ditches. 

Finds include early Iron Age pottery.

Possible site where the Iceni were overthrown by the Belgae.

3 C BC                        c; Constructed.

110                              Roman farm on site.

2 C                              Burnt down. Well dates from.

3-4 C                           Roman building and occupation.

7 C                              Bronze Age barrows reused for burial.

1893-1903                   Excavated by Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

1894                            Excavated.

1939                            Excavated by Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

1949-1951                   Excavated by Cambridge University Archaeology Field Club.

1961-1962                   Excavated by Cambridge University Archaeology Field Club.