Causewayed enclosure 900m west of Great Wilbraham parish church

Great Wilbraham is a causewayed enclosure, a form of earthwork that was built in northwestern Europe, including the southern British Isles, in the early Neolithic period. Causewayed enclosures are areas that are fully or partially ringed by ditches interrupted by gaps, or causeways, of unexcavated ground, often with earthworks and palisades in some combination. The site's excavator, David Clarke, considered that it was probably a settlement, The causeways are difficult to explain in military terms since they would have provided multiple ways for attackers to pass through the ditches to the inside of the enclosure, though it was suggested they could have been sally ports for defenders to…

The Great Wilbraham enclosure is in Cambridgeshire, in the valley of the Little Wilbraham River, near the village of Great Wilbraham, east of Cambridge. Two concentric ditches, about 20 m apart, each interrupted by multiple gaps, lie on a flat area on the north-facing side of the river valley, though the river has been diverted and no longer runs on its former path. The site is about 170 m across, and encloses about 2 ha. The enclosure is located on a sandy terrace, in Little Wilbraham Fen, a small fenland area connected to the larger Fens to the north by a stream.|group=note}} on an aerial photograph taken in July 1972, and included on a list of sixteen possible causewayed enclosures based…