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Stonea Camp ditches. Stonea Camp is the lowest 'hill fort' in Britain. Extensive banks and ditches protected its northern side, while the marshes and streams of the Fens formed the southern defences. Built by Britons in the Iron Age as a base for inter-tribal conflicts, the fort was also used to defend the area against the Romans. Most of the earthworks visible today were rebuilt in 1991 to their

Stonea Camp

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Stonea Camp ditches. Stonea Camp is the lowest 'hill fort' in Britain. Extensive banks and ditches protected its northern side, while the marshes and streams of the Fens formed the southern defences. Built by Britons in the Iron Age as a base for inter-tribal conflicts, the fort was also used to defend the area against the Romans. Most of the earthworks visible today were rebuilt in 1991 to their former shape and size, following ploughing of the area earlier in the century.

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