Craven, J. A. (2012). Archaeological Evaluation at Land at Fordham Rd/Newmarket Rd, Fordham. Ipswich: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1023435. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Archaeological Evaluation at Land at Fordham Rd/Newmarket Rd, Fordham
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Series:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Trial trench evaluation of an arable field adjacent to Newmarket Rd, Fordham identified two ring ditches, measuring 25 and 37m in diameter, corresponding to the position of two circular cropmarks recorded in the Cambridgeshire HER from aerial photography. The ring ditches are thought to be the surviving elements of a former funerary complex originating in the early Bronze Age, consisting of two barrows and smaller associated deposits including a possible disturbed inhumation burial near the centre of the larger ring ditch and a possible unurned cremation and burnt flint spread lying between the ditches. Each ditch appears to have initially infilled through natural processes before more substantial homogenous deposits were laid down. The finds assemblage was slight, with pottery and worked flint suggesting a main period of activity in the Early Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age periods. Pottery sherds were small and in a poor state of preservation implying redeposition from earlier contexts, perhaps deriving from a barrow or bank falling into the ditches. The sites later land-use as arable land however has removed all evidence of any former barrow or banks and there is no definite indication for such features being redeposited into the ditches. The monuments do not appear to have acted as a focus for any subsequent activity after the Bronze Age period. Small amounts of medieval material recovered from the modern ploughsoil probably all derive from casual loss or manuring practices and there is nothing to suggest that the site has been anything but agricultural land since the medieval period.
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Author:		 J A Craven
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Publisher:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2012
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Site: ECB3754 Land at Fordham Rd/Newmarket Rd, Fordham
Parish: FORDHAM
District: East Cambridgeshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: Newmarket Rd Fordham
Location - Auto Detected: Cambridgeshire
Grid Reference: 562980, 268920 (Easting, Northing)
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BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) Flint (Find)
BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
LATE NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
LATE NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) GRAVE (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
EARLY BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) RING DITCH (Monument Type England)
EARLY BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)
Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
Modern (Auto Detected Temporal)
LATE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)
Medieval (Auto Detected Temporal)
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OASIS Id: suffolkc1-121719
OBIB: Report No. 2012/081
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Note:		 SCCAS Evaluation report
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Created Date:		 25 Nov 2016