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An Anglo-Saxon Hut on the Car Dyke, at Waterbeach

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ID8886433
AuthorsT C Lethbridge (corresponding author)
Year1927
Volume7
Issue2
Pages141-146
Publication date1927-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Antiquaries Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-5815 • E-ISSN: 1758-5309
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003581500015948
OpenAlexW2125986232
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Considerable interest attaches to the Car Dyke as it has been claimed as a Roman work by several authorities (Dr. Cyril Fox, Archaeology of the Cambridge Region , p. 179). In June of this year I attempted to make sure of the date by cutting a section through the fosse. When a well was sunk through the bank of the dyke at the Lodge, Waterbeach, many years ago, the workmen cut through a boat of some kind. It seems reasonable to suppose that this boat dates from the time when the dyke was still full of water, and had been left moored in some little creek or dock probably near a settlement site. I therefore cut a section as near as possible to the well, that is, within a few yards of the south-east corner of the Lodge. It has not been possible to complete the section or reach the bottom of the ditch owing to the wet summer. The water-level was found at a depth of 4 ft. The section, however, cut through the middle of a small dwelling on the very lip of the ditch, debris from it forming a thin stratum separating different layers of silt. From the contents of the midden which formed the floor of the hut it was evident that the site was one of the Pagan Saxon Period

Archaeology · Art · Debris · Dike · Ditch · Excavation · Geography · Midden · Period (music · Section (typography · Settlement (finance · Silt · Stratum · Aeolian processes and effects · Geology · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Oceanography · Paleontology · Water management and technologies

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    Christopher C Taylor, Christopher Taylor•Landscape History•1992

  • Dispersed settlement in nucleated areas

    C C W Taylor, Christopher Taylor•Landscape History•1995

  • What's So Special? A Reinterpretation of Anglo-Saxon 'Special Deposits

    James O Morris, James Morris et al.•Medieval Archaeology•2011

  • Special Deposits' in Anglo-Saxon Settlements

    Helena Hamerow•Medieval Archaeology•2006

Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,12
Citation span1992 - 2011 (20)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 4

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