Wandlebury Hill Fort

Wandlebury Hill Fort, also known as the Wandlebury Ring, is an Iron Age hillfort located on Wandlebury Hill in the Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire, England, to the southeast of Cambridge [1]. Wandlebury overlooked the ancient Icknield Way [1]. The first hillfort was constructed in about 400 BC, consisting of "a substantial outer ditch and an inner rampart bank of chalk rubble and soil, enclosing a circular area of about 6 ha." A second ditch and bank circuit was added on the inner side of the first rampart in the 1st century BC, and a low counterscarp bank added around the perimeter [1]. The inner ring had a wooden palisading to deter invaders [1]. Wandlebury was a border settlement [1]. There is evidence that it was occupied by the Romans [1]. The Romans built a road from Worts Causeway to Wandlebury [1]. Two pottery sequences have been found establishing two separate construction phases [1].