Brittain, M. (2014). Girton College, West Field, Cambridge: An Archaeological Evaluation. Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeological Unit. https://doi.org/10.5284/1039911. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Girton College, West Field, Cambridge: An Archaeological Evaluation
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Abstract:		 In April 2014 the Cambridge Archaeological Unit excavated nine evaluation trenches with a total length of 260.5m within the West Field of Girton College. With the exception of residual finds of worked flint and Late Bronze-Early Iron Age pottery, prehistoric activity was not represented by any features. This was also the case for the Roman evidence, illustrated by four small abraded sherds of 1st-2nd century AD pottery. This, along with a complete absence of Anglo-Saxon activity, confirms the western limit for the Roman and Saxon cemetery found during the construction of College buildings in the later 19th century, and a northern limit for equivalent prehistoric activity recently exposed in the North West Cambridge development project. Overall, the study area's archaeology is comprised of the partial survival of a regular furrow system preceding a a rectilinear cluster of pits containing a small amount of both Roman and Late Medieval pottery. Certainly by the 16th-17th centuries the furrow system is in disuse, although linear slots for drainage continue to be cut in subsequent centuries along the same east-west course as the furrows, and thereby maximising the natural south-eastern landfall. Early 20th century service mains and garden bedding plots represent the most recent features. Undated features include two pits or postholes and a gully terminus, all within the northern half of the study area.
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Author:		 M. Brittain
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Publisher:		 Cambridge Archaeological Unit
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2014
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Site: Girton College, West Field
County: Cambridgeshire
District: South Cambridgeshire
Parish: GIRTON
Country: England
Grid Reference: 542255, 261091 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) BUTCHERED ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) FLAKE (Object England)
LATE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FURROW (Monus)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
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OASIS Id: cambridg3-178289
OBIB: Report no. 1231
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Note:		 34 pages, 2 tables, 7 colour and B/W figures, 7 sections
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Created Date:		 01 Feb 2018