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Monument Number 1086480
Hob Uid: 1086480
Location : City of Peterborough Maxey
Grid Ref : TF1184008160
Summary : A single ring ditch is visible as a cropmark on air photographs. It is situated close to the northern end of the Maxey cursus (TF 10 NW 58), and comprises a single ditch circuit 20 metres in diameter with a single, east-facing entrance. On this side are some pits, one on either side of the entrance gap and one immediately opposite the entrance. The site may be either a ring ditch or a hengiform monument.
More information : TF 1184 0816 Site 32 in the earlier RCHM survey of cropmarks on the river gravels, published in 1960. (a) In 1997, RCHME Aerial Survey undertook a computer-aided transcription at 1:10,000 scale of the Maxey Complex area. A single ring ditch was seen as a cropmark, near the northern end of the cursus (TF 10 NW 58), only 35 m to the south-west. It is 20 m in diameter; and on the east facing side there is an arrangement of pits, one to either side of a possible entrance, and another opposite. This feature may be a Prehistoric round barrow or could potentially be a hengiform monument of Neolithic date. (1)

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Source Number : 1
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Source details : Ann Carter/07-JUL-1997/RCHME: Etton Causewayed Enclosure
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Source Number : 1a
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Source details : A Matter of Time RCHM 1960 fig6
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Late Neolithic
Display Date : Late Neolithic
Monument End Date : -2200
Monument Start Date : -2900
Monument Type : Ring Ditch, Pit, Hengiform Monument
Evidence : Cropmark

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Ring Ditch
Evidence : Cropmark

Monument Period Name : Later Prehistoric
Display Date : Later Prehistoric
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -4000
Monument Type : Ring Ditch, Pit, Circular Enclosure
Evidence : Cropmark

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TF 10 NW 92
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Relationship type : General association

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Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1997-03-03
End Date : 1997-07-02

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 1086480