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DigsSite Name: Etton Causewayed EnclosureCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.079 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cambridgeshire Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Map Ref: TF135075 Landranger Map Number: 142
Latitude: 52.653361N Longitude: 0.323585W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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JohnLindsay saw from a distance on 30th Apr 2012 I've now tried to find this in google earth, and tried to work out the bus from Peterborough which isn't frequent enough in the bad weather, but I have now found the literature, sometimes it is called Etton, which isn't a good grep string, for places including etton, of which there are a lot, pop up. pryor is an author. There is a really good collection of material in Peterborough library local history collection. Material from the site is in the British Museum in gallery 50.
The puzzling thing though is the cursus, rather than the causewayed enclosure but that gets us back to the words matter.
The enclosure is less than 1km away from a smaller single causewayed circuit to the south and only 80m away from Etton Woodgate causewayed enclosure to the west. These three sites are the earliest elements in an extensive and long-lived monument complex in the Welland Valley.
The enclosure is defined by a single circuit of interrupted ditches enclosing an area 180m east-west by 140-160m north-south. Three principal entrances were noted to the north, east and west, but none could be located to the south because the southernmost part of the enclosure had been destroyed by a broad drainage channel, the Maxey Cut.
More details at Peter Chowne's web site: Prehistoric Lincolnshire.
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