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The Priory Garage, 8 Church Street, Isleham, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 5RX |
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In August 2017 Archaeological Solutions (AS) carried out an archaeological evaluation of land at the Priory Garage, 8 Church Street, Isleham, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 5RX (NGR TL 6423 7431; Figs. 1 and 2). The evaluation was to provide for the initial requirements of a planning condition attached to planning permission for the construction of four new dwellings following demolition of existing garage buildings (East Cambs Council Ref. 16/01501/FUL). The evaluation was required based on advice from Cambridgeshire County Council Historic Environment Team (CCC HET). The site is located to the immediate south of the Grade I Listed (NHLE 1126476) late 11th century chapel of St Margaret of Antioch, to the north of which is the Scheduled Ancient Monument of the remains of Isleham Priory. These include the foundations of the conventual buildings below ground and the upstanding earthwork remains of a series of fishponds and the associated agricultural complex of the priory. The Chapel of St Margaret of Antioch was converted to a barn in the medieval period. Medieval and post-medieval occupation evidence has been recorded at Priory Gardens to the immediate west in the 1990s (CHER MCB15283). The earliest feature recorded during the trial trenching was Pit F1047 (Trench 1) which contained medieval (11th - 13th century) pottery, and residual medieval pottery was found in later features. Two late medieval / early post-medieval (15th - 16th century) pits, F1062 and F1068, were present in Trench 3. A small number of post-medieval (18th - 19th century) features were recorded in Trenches 1 (Ditch F1041), and 4 (F1028, F1023, 1120). The intrinsically interesting features comprised the possible wells, F1056 and F1071 (Trench 3), ?Quarry Pit F1120 (Trench 4) and clunch wall M1098 (Trench 3). The latter may date from the medieval period but is more likely post-medieval. |
Author: |
Nancy Edwards
Tansy Collins
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Archaeological Solutions Ltd
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2017
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The Priory Garage, 8 Church Street |
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ISLEHAM |
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East Cambridgeshire |
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Cambridgeshire |
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England |
Grid Reference: 564220, 274320 (Easting, Northing)
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archaeol7-316866 |
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Archaeological Solutions Report No. 5411 |
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17 Jul 2019 |