HeritageGateway - Home
Site Map
Text size: A A A
You are here: Home > > > > Cambridgeshire HER Result
Cambridgeshire HERPrintable version | About Cambridgeshire HER

CHER Number:MCB29753
Type of record:Monument
Name:Undated oval enclosure, Alconbury Weston

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 178 783
Parish:Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

  • ENCLOSURE (Early Iron Age to 5th century Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)

Full description

1.An irregular enclosure, which may have been a settlement of possible Iron Age or Roman date, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs to the south east of Upton, centred at TL 17885 78301. The ditched enclosure measures approximately 35 m by 50 m, but it is truncated by a modern field boundary. The enclosure is located to the north east of a large settlement and may have been associated with it. This feature was recorded from EH Reconnaissance aerial photographs of 2011.


<1> English Heritage, NMR 27069_011-015 29-JUN-2011 (Aerial Photograph). SCB65585.

Sources and further reading

<1>Aerial Photograph: English Heritage. NMR 27069_011-015 29-JUN-2011.