The excavations in 2012 thus support recent suggestions that the intensity of settlement along this part of the Cam Valley in the 5th – 7th century AD was very high, and raises the likelihood that this area may have been of some importance in this period. This site is thus shown to extend over a much larger area than was previously known, although its apparent size may be due in part to settlement shift, with the site focus possibly moving gradually north over the course of a century or so. This lies less than 120m from a previously excavated area of 6th – 7th century AD domestic settlement, and it seems likely that these together form part of the same Anglo-Saxon settlement. Excavated evidence dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period included spread deposits of 5th – 6th century date which appear to be derived from domestic settlement on or immediately adjacent to the excavated site. Activity here appears to pre-date later Romano-British (2nd – 4th century) ditches previously recorded c. The 1st – 2nd century AD Romano-British evidence may extend back into the pre-Roman period and included a ditch likely to relate to domestic settlement in the immediate vicinity. The excavations revealed residual evidence for intermittent prehistoric activity spanning the Mesolithic to late Iron Age and in situ features and finds pertaining to rural settlement dating to the 1st-2nd century AD and the 5th – 6th century AD. The aim of the excavation was to identify, record and analyse any archaeological evidence surviving on the site of a proposed new building while also providing the opportunity for volunteers to learn new skills and experience aspects of life and learning at Cambridge University. In 2012 a small archaeological excavation was undertaken in the grounds of Ridley Hall Theological College by a number of volunteers, including sixth-form students and members of a local archaeology group, who were supervised and directed by Access Cambridge Archaeology at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Ridley Hall. Pickles Fieldwork in Cambridgeshire 2007, Elizabeth Shepherd Popescu and Sarah Poppy Reviews, Tim Malim and Sue Oosthuizen Collection of Cambridgeshire ‘Sketches’ J.D. These were probably associated with charcoal production, with no evidence of contemporary settlement in the immediate area.ĬONTENTS Obit: Mary Desborough Cra’ster, 1928–2008, John Pickles, Peter Gathercole, and Alison Taylor A Fen Island in the Neolithic and Bronze Age: Excavations at North Fen, Sutton, Cambridgeshire, Leo Webley and Jonathan Hiller A fen island burial: excavation of an Early Bronze Age round barrow at North Fen, Sutton, Aileen Connor The Bartlow Hills in context, Hella Eckardt with Amanda Clarke, Sophie Hay, Stephen Macaulay, Pat Ryan, David Thornley and Jane Timby Senuna, goddess of the river Rhee or Henney, Stephen Yeates A Reappraisal of the Evidence for the ‘northern arm’ of the Fleam Dyke at Fen Ditton, Scott Kenney An excavation at Station Quarry, Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, Laura Piper and Andrew Norton Excavations at Scotland Road/Union Lane, Chesterton, Duncan Mackay A Curious Object from Firs Farm, Caxton, Aileen Connor A morphological analysis of Ickleton, Cambridgeshire: An admission of defeat, Christopher Taylor Funerals, the final consumer choice? Ken Sneath The ‘Age of the Windmill’ in the Haddenham Level, N James Upware and Bottisham Sluices, K S G Hinde Changes in the landscape of west Cambridge, Part V: 1945 to 2000, Philomena Guillebaud The C.A.S. Anglo-Saxon features consisted of fifty-seven pits with burnt fills scattered across the site, radiocarbon dated to the seventh to ninth century cal AD. Pollen evidence suggests that there was some regeneration of scrub or woodland following the abandonment of the settlement in the third century AD. The settlement lay within an extensive field system, which also contained a small cremation cemetery. Features associated with the Romano-British settlement included a corn-drier, which had been used for roasting malt. A small area of Later Iron Age settlement was found at the southern edge of the site, with occupation probably continuing without a break into the Roman period, when a more substantial enclosed settlement was established. Subsequent activity in the Early Bronze Age was represented by a looser scatter of pits, which contained Collared and Biconical Urn pottery. The earliest occupation took the form of a cluster of Early Neolithic pits. Report on an excavation and watching brief carried out in 2004–5 at Parnwell, Peterborough, providing an opportunity to investigate an extensive area of the clay hinterland adjacent to the gravel terraces surrounding Flag Fen.
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