Pickstone, A. and Mortimer, R. (2012). War Ditches, Cherry Hinton: Revisiting an Iron Age Hillfort. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 101. Vol 101, pp. 31-60. https://doi.org/10.5284/1073452. Cite this via datacite
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War Ditches, Cherry Hinton: Revisiting an Iron Age Hillfort | ||||||||||||||
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Revisiting an Iron Age Hillfort | ||||||||||||||
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 101 | ||||||||||||||
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society | ||||||||||||||
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31 - 60 | ||||||||||||||
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War Ditches is a large enclosure situated on a spur of the Gog Magog hills to the south of Cambridge. Much of this originally circular monument was destroyed by chalk quarrying in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries, during which time a series of excavations were conducted. Emergency archaeological work in 2009 was necessitated by groundworks relating to the opening of the site to the public as a nature reserve, and followed the accidental discovery in 2008 of a human burial along with animal bones and Romano-British pottery high up in the south-eastern corner of the quarry. Excavation of a single large slot through the surviving ditch was supplemented by test pits and auger surveys. Relatively large and well-stratified finds and environmental assemblages were found which, allied with radiocarbon dating, have enabled the first accurate dating of the ditch infill sequence. It is now clear that the monument was constructed at the end of the 5th or beginning of the 4th century BC, only to be destroyed before completion or shortly after. The site was then abandoned until reoccupation in the middle of the 1st century BC. | ||||||||||||||
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11 May 2015 |