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A Roman field system and trackway with later field ditches and drove on Whittlesey Washes is an archaeological monument located in Cambridgeshire, approximately sixty metres south of Bedford House. The site preserves evidence of Roman agricultural organisation, including field divisions and a trackway that facilitated movement through the landscape, with later medieval or post-medieval additions visible as field ditches and a drove road. The Roman elements represent the systematic management of arable land characteristic of settlement and farming in the Roman period, whilst the overlying field features indicate continued land use and modification in subsequent centuries. The monument survives as earthwork evidence visible in the fenland landscape, illustrating the long-term continuity of field systems and patterns of land division across multiple historical periods.
Roman field system and trackway with later field ditches and drove on Whittlesey Washes, 60m south of Bedford House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009992. View the official record →
A Roman field system and trackway with later field ditches and drove on Whittlesey Washes is an archaeological monument located in Cambridgeshire, approximately sixty metres south of Bedford House. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009992.
Roman field system and trackway with later field ditches and drove on Whittlesey Washes, 60m south of Bedford House 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 1009992.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A Bronze Age post alignment and timber platform at Flag Fen and associated Bronze Age and later field systems and settlement to either side of the Northey Road (1 km), Stanground Wash Bronze Age Barrow Cemetery (1.9 km), Horsey Hill Fort: a Civil War fieldwork (2.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Roman field system and trackway with later field ditches and drove on Whittlesey Washes, 60m south of Bedford House'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.
Roman field system and trackway with later field ditches and drove on Whittlesey Washes, 60m south of Bedford House stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.