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Heath Farm Dyke Middle is a linear earthwork forming part of the defensive system of Camulodunum, the pre-Roman Iron Age settlement in Essex. Dating to the Late Iron Age, likely the first century BC, this dyke represents one of several parallel banks and ditches that enclosed and protected the oppidum, an extensive fortified territorial settlement. The earthwork survives as a substantial bank with associated ditch, characteristic of the engineering works constructed to defend this major centre of power in southern Britain during the final centuries before the Roman conquest. As part of Camulodunum's impressive circuit of defences, Heath Farm Dyke Middle demonstrates the strategic importance and resources invested in protecting this settlement, which would eventually become the Romano-British town of Colchester.
Heath Farm Dyke Middle (rear of Alan Way): part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019962. View the official record →
Heath Farm Dyke Middle is a linear earthwork forming part of the defensive system of Camulodunum, the pre-Roman Iron Age settlement in Essex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019962.
Heath Farm Dyke Middle (rear of Alan Way): part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1019962.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Gosbecks Iron Age and Romano-British site (1.8 km), Remains of All Saints Church, 60m north-west of Stanway Hall Farm (2.2 km), Kidman's Dyke in Walk Wood: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum (2.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Heath Farm Dyke Middle (rear of Alan Way): part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Heath Farm Dyke Middle (rear of Alan Way): part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum of Camulodunum stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.