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Mile Ditches is a linear earthwork monument located in Cambridgeshire, England. The site consists of parallel ditches that form part of the Iron Age field system and settlement landscape of the region, dating to the later prehistoric period. The earthwork represents evidence of agricultural organisation and territorial division characteristic of Iron Age communities in eastern England, demonstrating the development of organised land management practices during this period. The surviving ditches remain visible in the landscape as a testament to prehistoric engineering and land use patterns that would have structured settlement and farming activities across the Cambridgeshire fenland margins.
Mile Ditches is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006787. View the official record →
Mile Ditches is a linear earthwork monument located in Cambridgeshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006787.
Mile Ditches 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 1006787.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Triple ditches at Galley Hill (4.9 km), Moated site, Goodfellows. (5.1 km), Double moat and fishpond, Queenbury (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Mile Ditches'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.
Mile Ditches stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.