Malim, T., Penn, K., Robinson, B., Wait, G. A. and Welsh, K. (1997). New Evidence on the Cambridgeshire Dykes and Worsted Street Roman Road. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 85. Vol 85, pp. 27-122. https://doi.org/10.5284/1073237. Cite this via datacite
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New Evidence on the Cambridgeshire Dykes and Worsted Street Roman Road | |||||||||||||
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 85 | |||||||||||||
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27 - 122 | |||||||||||||
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Report on an investigation of the Cambridgeshire Dykes, their landscape context and associated features, drawing on a range of archaeological and historical evidence. A sequence of well stratified carbon dates has established that the first phase of Fleam Dyke was most probably constructed in the fifth century AD. Ensuing phases, which produced the typical profile of the monument as it survives today, were sixth-century or later in date, and, by analogy, the other three Cambridgeshire Dykes (Bran Ditch, Brent Ditch, and Devils Dyke) are assumed to be of similar date. Comparison of their size and design supports an interpretation as defensive barriers, but their possible use as routeways and their association with earlier sacred places suggest that secondary functions may also have existed. Evidence from pagan Saxon burials, place-names and contemporary settlement suggests the existence of a definite cultural boundary in this zone between west and east, and between Anglian Cambridgeshire and British Hertfordshire and Essex. The Icknield Way zone into which the Dykes were built appears to have been grazed grassland, a tract of moorland between the Chiltern scarp and the spring-line beside Ashwell Street, and it was this zone that the Dykes controlled. However the origins of the Dykes may lie further back in time, as boundaries in a prehistoric division of the landscape, as suggested for the Mile Ditches, together with many of the Hertfordshire dykes, which also cross the Icknield Way zone. Includes | |||||||||||||
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