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Fleam Dyke
52.1600° N, 0.2660° E
About
Fleam Dyke is a linear earthwork between Fulbourn and Balsham in Cambridgeshire, initiated some time between AD 330 and AD 510. It is three miles long and seven metres high from ditch to bank, and its ditch faces westwards, implying invading Saxons as its architects. Later, it formed a boundary of the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Flendish Hundred. At a prominent point, the earthwork runs beside Mutlow Hill, crowned by a 4000-year-old Bronze Age burial mound.
Historical Timeline
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Anglo-Saxon finds uncovered
19th–early 20th century
Roman coin under the dyke
4th century AD
First construction phase
AD 330–510
Last construction phase
AD 450–620
Bronze Age barrow at Mutlow Hill
c. 2000 BC
Archaeological Features
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Burial and Funerary Structures
Religious and Ritual Structures
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Transportation and Communication Structures
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