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Picture of Wandlebury outer ditch looking into the hill fort.

Wandlebury, of course! #hillfortswednesday Approximate location of Clark and Harley’s 1955-6 excavation trench across the ramparts - with spoil mounds.

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Map of find locations of a specific Bronze Age sword type and the origin of Bronze Age ornament sets recovered in Denmark, and how it has been interpreted as indicating the movement of women as marriage partners.

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#hillfortswednesday Wandlebury (yet again!) hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/EN30...

Excavations led by myself and Matt Brudenell, as part of a training excavation for University of Cambridge students, investigated a linear anomaly south of the monument. As possible 'outer works', these re-purposed a BA ditch, constructing an IA palisade feature (doi.org/10.17863/CAM...).

Excavations, under the direction of Charlie French, also University of Cambridge, between 1994-1997, continued to investigate the monument, but focused on some of the interior spaces, and an adjacent field; settlement activity was noted - see article in PCAS 2004 (doi.org/10.5284/1073...).

Excavations, under the direction of Graham Clark, University of Cambridge between 1955-56 - see Hartley's article in PCAS 1957 (doi.org/10.5284/1072...) - showed Wandlebury to have at least two phases of banks and ramparts, convincingly demonstrating it as a hillfort.

1927 OS map with site locations shown (Wandlebury is 7).

Side-notes penned into the margins of the 1927 OS map, showing 'Wandlebury Henge?'.

Wandlebury (again) for #hillfortswednesday, showing archive material in MAA. The map contains info up to 1955, with 'site' locations. As a multi-authored landscape, there seems to be a slight question mark over Wandlebury's status as a hillfort penned in the map's margins: '7. Wandlebury Henge?'.

Outer ditch

North Field close to 1950s excavations.

Wandlebury (again) #HillfortsWednesday - geophysical survey taking place, across the interior this week, including in the field with Clark’s 1950s excavations. And a cheeky photo of an autumnal outer ditch. Why not?!

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Was a conclusion reached regarding professional/commercial/development-led archaeology? At the CAU I personally and others too straddle the commercial and research worlds. But if this is archaeology defined by context AND practice then we perhaps do ‘development-led’ research archaeology.

Oblique aerial photograph of Wandlebury hillfort (David Matzliach/CAU)

A misty morning in April 2024 oblique of Wandlebury hillfort, just outside Cambridge. The venue for the University of Cambridge’s training excavation. Just about to carry out a geophysical survey of the interior. Thought it is a good shout for #hillfortswednesday!

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I'm an archaeologist living & working in Cymru/Wales - mostly interested in aerial archaeology, remote sensing, later prehistory, hillforts 🛖 & Roman Britain.

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Celebrating the centenary of Fox’s ‘Archaeology of the Cambridge Region’ from 1923, another paper has been published. This time specifically on ‘ACR’ for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

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If you enjoyed ‘The Dig’ - you can now discover why the character of Peggy Piggott was *really* invited to excavate the Sutton Hoo ship burial. On women archaeologists of the 1930s: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ojoa.12275
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The next paper in our 'celebration of Fox's Archaeology of the Cambridge Region' is now out in the Archaeological Journal! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dense pasts: settlement archaeology after Fox's The archaeology of the Cambridge region (1923) | Ant... Dense pasts: settlement archaeology after Fox's The archaeology of the Cambridge region (1923)

Cyril Fox’s ‘The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region’ was published 100 years ago, a milestone in landscape archaeology. In a paper published in Antiquity, we compare the evidence available to Fox in 1923 with 30 years of development-led archaeology.