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CHER Number:MCB29813
Type of record:Monument
Name:Rectilinear enclosure settlement, Barham

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 129 749
Parish:Barham and Woolley, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

Protected Status:

  • SHINE: Rectilinear enclosure settlement, Barham

Full description

1. An Iron Age/Roman rectilinear enclosure is visible as a cropmark on air photographs, at TL 1291 7493. The enclosure is formed by a circuit of ditch and measures approximately 20m x 24m.

2-3. The rectilinear enclosure described above in (1) appears to be part of a larger, linear, settlement, which is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs centred approximately at TL 12872 74923. A line of sub-rectangular, overlapping, ditched enclosures extend south west to north east, connected by a linear, ditched, trackway. The features are visible across two field boundaries. These features were recorded from EH Reconnaissance aerial photographs of 2011.


<1> English Heritage, NMR 20912/27 10-JUL-2009 (Aerial Photograph). SCB65966.

<2> English Heritage, NMR 27070_043-044 29-JUN-2011 (Aerial Photograph). SCB65967.

<3> English Heritage, NMR 27071_005-011 29-JUN-2011 (Aerial Photograph). SCB65968.

Sources and further reading

<1>Aerial Photograph: English Heritage. NMR 20912/27 10-JUL-2009.
<2>Aerial Photograph: English Heritage. NMR 27070_043-044 29-JUN-2011.
<3>Aerial Photograph: English Heritage. NMR 27071_005-011 29-JUN-2011.