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Summary

Excavations revealed a range of features including parallel ditches that may represent a droveway, postholes and beamslots.

Monument Type(s):

• DITCH (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
• DROVE ROAD (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
• POST HOLE (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)
• RIDGE AND FURROW (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds:

• SHERD (Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
• ANIMAL REMAINS (Late Saxon to Medieval - 851 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Events:

• Evaluation at Spring Cottage Farm, Alconbury, 1997 (Ref: ALC 97)

Full description

1. An archaeological evaluation was undertaken by Cambridge Archaeological Unit in advance of a proposed housing development. The preliminary results revealed evidence of at least two phases of activity. The earliest phase broadly dates to the Late Saxon/Medieval periods (C9th-C14th), represented by a droveway, field boundary ditches and probable structural remains. Later activity is evidenced in the form of previously unrecorded ridge and furrow earthworks. These were identifiable by artefacts but are historically known to have been cultivation techniques of medieval and post-medieval agricultural activity.

<1> Whittaker, P., 1997, An Archaeological Evaluation at Spring Cottage Farm, Alconbury, Cambridgeshire (Unpublished report). SCB16898.

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