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J M Coles reports (pp 1-4) that over 2 000 sites have been discovered and recorded in Cambs, Lincs, and Norfolk, while some 400 previously known sites are now better identified. Dates run from Meso to med. Areas of highest potential are being assessed using eight criteria, with a view to preservation and/or management arrangements. Tim Malim (5-10) reports 'A prehistoric timber avenue at Fengate, Peterborough', where 800 uprights formed a 10m wide corridor for a 120m length. Many prestige items occur along the avenue, which links Flag Fen to the higher ground. 'Excavation of the Lincolnshire Car Dyke, Baston' is reported by Reuben Thorpe and Torven Zeffertt (10-15): sectioning revealed a ditch 3 m wide by 3.6m deep, originally with fast, clear water in Roman times, gradually silting in post-Roman times and finally being virtually levelled by postmed ploughing. 'A Bronze Age barrow group in Walcott, Lincolnshire' was examined by Hilary Healey and Linda Hurcombe (16-20), where rescue of an unskilled 'excavation' revealed a male inhumation in a coffin (which survived only as frass - beetle remains) and de-stratified artefacts included Food Vessel and other pottery. The group contains 24 barrows or more. James Symonds (21-4) describes 'Threat-led archaeology in Boston, Lincolnshire' where evaluation work has been done on several sites in the town. C A I French (25-34) gives an account of 'Recent developments in contract rescue archaeology in Cambridgeshire', where all sand and gravel areas in the county have been evaluated and ranked in six groups from 'areas of maximum planning objection' downwards, for future reference in planning and management. Andrew Wheeler (34-8) reports on 'Flandrian deposits at Wood Fen: a palaeoecological investigation', using lithostratigraphical survey and study of plant micro- and macrofossil remains. A noted surveyor of late 16th/early 17th century who made many estate plans in the Fens and beyond is the subject of R J Silvester (38-42) in 'William Haiwarde and the Fens'. |
