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Helen
Parslow
Archives Officer
Albion Archaeology
St Mary's Church
St Mary's Street
Bedford
MK42 0AS
UK
The existing Newnham archive consisted of a large archive of site records (1350 Contexts), 40 large site drawings, 150 colour slides, and 200 black and white photographs and negatives, along with a large assemblage of artefacts (including 37 boxes of tile, 31 animal bone, human remains (2 individuals), pottery, coins, glass, iron, etc.)
The site has now been totally quarried away, but the results of the excavation were never fully analysed or published and the site archive was accessioned to Bedford Museum in 2000.
A grant from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF), via Historic England and DEFRA Analysis and publication, has made it possible to complete, analyse, and publish the results of the 1970s investigations of this regionally important site available to archaeologists and the public. The publication restores a degree of significance to an important archaeological site that, for many years, has only ‘existed’ as a blob on the Bedford Historic Environment Record and as an un-synthesised excavation archive deposited in the museum vaults.
The analysis is now published as Newnham: a Roman bath house and estate centre east of Bedford, by David Ingham, Jeremy Oetgen and Anna Slowikowski, East Anglian Archaeology Monograph 158. br> This archive includes the specialists’ reports and data in full that accompany the printed monograph on compact disc. br> The original physical archive resides in The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum: accession no. 1975/70.