1949/10/01 by Junebug Clark · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Maritime and Coastal Archaeology #Archaeological Research and Protection #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Ditch #Geology #Excavation #Alluvium #Archaeology #Promontory #Mile #Paleontology #Geography
paper · doi:10.1017/s0003581500017261
openalex publication_date 1949/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The excavations described in this report were aimed at establishing more about the character of the Cambridgeshire Car Dyke and at defining the period during which it was in active use. The dyke, which traverses with several changes of direction the low gravel and loam promontory between the fork of the Cam or Granta immediately south of Waterbeach and the alluvium of the Old West River (and present Ouse) north-north-east of Cottenham (fig. 1), varies in character considerably in its five-mile course. Most of it has been degraded to a field ditch, and over some stretches cultivation has overrun the banks on either side and encroached upon the bed, but the dyke survives reasonably intact at Waterbeach and on the site of the present excavations at Bullock's Haste and Setchel Fen.