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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Borough FenCountry: 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:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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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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