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CHER Number:	MCB15885
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Multi-period remains, Vinegar Hill

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:	TL 185 777
Parish:	Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

ENCLOSURE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
DITCH (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
DITCH (3rd century AD to 4th century AD - 201 AD to 400 AD)
WATER CHANNEL? (Early Neolithic to 2nd century AD - 4000 BC? to 200 AD)
GULLY (4th century AD - 301 AD to 400 AD)
BEAM SLOT? (4th century AD - 301 AD to 400 AD)
PIT (4th century AD - 301 AD to 400 AD)

Associated Finds:

SHERD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Events:

BUFAU excavation, Vinegar Hill 1996
Preliminary assessment, A1 widening scheme, Alconbury to Fletton, 1991 (phase 1)
Evaluation at Alconbury Hill / Vinegar Hill, 1996
Evaluation at Alconbury Hill, 1994

Full description

1. As part of the initial A1 assessment, fieldwalking and small scale trial trenching took place to the SW of the Alconbury Hill junction. No features were revealed, although an extensive scatter of early Roman material was recorded, comprising pottery and a large fragment of opus signinum.

2. Prior to A1 road improvements an evaluation took place on three sites: Norman Cross, Alconbury Hill and Vinegar Hill. At Vinegar Hill seven trial trenches were dug, revealing evidence of a ditch marked enclosure. 0.8 kg of pottery, similar to that on Norman Cross, was retrieved. The fill of the ditches contained well-preserved animal bone, molluscs and charred plant remains.

4. paragraph 4.2.1: A magnetometer survey was undertaken and located a series of linear anomalies interepreted as medieval ridge and furrow. A single semi-circular anomaly was also identified.

<1> Evans, G. and Shotliff, D., 1991, A1 Widening Scheme. Alconbury - Fletton Parkway. An Archaeological Assessment 1991 (Unpublished report). SCB18145.

<2> BUFAU, 1996, A1(M) Alconbury to Peterborough DBFO Scheme: Archaeological evaluations at Norman Cross, Vinegar Hill and Alconbury Hill, February 1996 (Unpublished report). SCB1643.

<3> Ellis, P., Hughes, G., Leach, P., Mould, C. and Sterenberg, J., 1998, Excavations alongside Roman Ermine Street, Cambridgeshire, 1996. The Archaeology of the A1(M) Alconbury to Peterborough Road Scheme (Monograph). SCB17996.

<4> Kemp, S. and Reynolds, T., 1995, Archaeology on the A1 between Alconbury and Fletton Parkway (TL1915/7400-1425/9420) Stage 3 Assessment. Volume 1 (Unpublished report). SCB18961.

Sources and further reading

<1>	Unpublished report: Evans, G. and Shotliff, D.. 1991. A1 Widening Scheme. Alconbury - Fletton Parkway. An Archaeological Assessment 1991.
<2>	Unpublished report: BUFAU. 1996. A1(M) Alconbury to Peterborough DBFO Scheme: Archaeological evaluations at Norman Cross, Vinegar Hill and Alconbury Hill, February 1996.
<3>	Monograph: Ellis, P., Hughes, G., Leach, P., Mould, C. and Sterenberg, J.. 1998. Excavations alongside Roman Ermine Street, Cambridgeshire, 1996. The Archaeology of the A1(M) Alconbury to Peterborough Road Scheme.
<4>	Unpublished report: Kemp, S. and Reynolds, T.. 1995. Archaeology on the A1 between Alconbury and Fletton Parkway (TL1915/7400-1425/9420) Stage 3 Assessment. Volume 1.

Documents

SCB17996-BAR_ErmineStreet_BUFAU_1998.pdf
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