British Archaeology

Archaeologists are conducting the first dig in a country park for almost 30 years.

Wandlebury Country Park invited teams from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Archaeological Unit on a two-week dig.

They will investigate the archaeological past of Wandlebury, where excavations were last carried out between 1994 and 1997.

The park, near Cambridge, is celebrating its 70th anniversary after it became a public open space on 26 April 1954.

Wandlebury sits on top of a small chalk hill and is home to an Iron Age hillfort, referred to as the Wandlebury Ring, which is around 1000ft (300m) in diameter.