Archeological Sites
This page contains details for archeological sites of interest in, or near Christchurch. Note that the layer for these locations is hidden by default on the Interactive Map, and there is an option to enable it in the left panel.
| Stonea Camp | Iron Age hillfort dating from 500BC |
| Griffin’s Pit | Prehistoric flint flake of the Levalloisian type from Griffin’s pit, one mile south-east of Wimblington. [1] |
| Bedlam Farm | Prehistoric flake of Clactonian type from Bedlam Farm, 1 mile north-east of Manea (Baden-Powell, 1934, figs. 4–5, p. 217). [1] |
| Plantation Farm | Settlement site near Littleport with A beaker shards found relating to the C element of the Beaker people. The finds date to the transition period before the early Bronze Age between 3000 – 1700 BC. [2] |
| Stonea Grange | Anglo-Saxon pits contained near-complete animal skeletons (2 pigs and a dog) found in 1980. [3] |
| March Civil War Fort | The monument includes the remains of an earthen fort, or sconce, dating from the English Civil War, and a pattern of earlier earthworks overlain by the sconce, which cover a rectangular field of approximately 2ha to the south of Eastwood Avenue in the Town End area of March. [5] |
References
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-prehistoric-society/article/abs/palaeoliths-from-the-fen-district/84723F7EEF4812491FC9898CD96BE00D
- A History of the County and Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely (Volume 1) 1938
- https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archsearch/record.xhtml
- https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com/location/ew30/
- https://ancientmonuments.uk/113411-the-march-sconce-a-civil-war-fieldwork-250m-south-west-of-eastwood-burial-ground-march#.Y3nmnnbP0r8