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Submitted by Forest_Jungle_Collective on Thursday, 10 August 2023  Page Views: 637

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Borough Fen
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.614 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cambridgeshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Peterborough
Map Ref: TF19080727
Latitude: 52.650099N  Longitude: 0.241221W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Borough Fen
Borough Fen submitted by Forest_Jungle_Collective : Hillfort-without-the hill with Borough Fen just north of Peterborough @ForestCollectiv on Twitter (Vote or comment on this photo)
Constructed in the Middle Iron Age, only the enclosure banks of the ring-fort are visible today. They define a roughly circular area of 3.8 hectares with diameter of 220m.

The main inner bank is 7.5m wide at the base and 1.5m high. It has a berm 1.5m wide separating it from the ditch which is 2.3m deep and 10.5 m wide across the top. The ditch of the outer rampart is 1.3m deep and 3.5m wide across the top.

The interior is entirely buried beneath clay and all its floors are still intact. The bank and ditch that surround it, too, are intact and the defensive ditch is waterlogged.

Archaeologists sometimes describe it as a “hill fort” which is a little perverse since it is on a flat landscape, barely above sea level. Their “logic” is that it has parallels with the characteristic forts from this time found on hill tops across the British landscape.

More: https://peterborougharchaeology.org/borough-fen-iron-age-fort/
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The Iron Age enclosure at Borough Fen, Cambridgeshire by Andy B on Wednesday, 09 August 2023
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The Iron Age enclosure at Borough Fen, Cambridgeshire An archaeological Survey by the RCHME, December 1993
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/8398/ANIRONAGEENCLOSUREONBOROUGHFENNEWBOROUGHCAMBRIDGESHIRE
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