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Ladd, S. (2018).
Land East of New Road, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire: PXA and UPD
. Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire: Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge).
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Land East of New Road, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire: PXA and UPD
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Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge) unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract:
Between August and December 2017, a team from Oxford Archaeology East undertook an excavation East of New Road, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, following evaluation work in August 2014. Naturally formed periglacial hollows were found across the site containing Mesolithic struck flints and Early Neolithic flint and pottery, as well as animal bone and, in one case, disarticulated human skeletal remains. Later Neolithic activity was confined to three possible Early-Middle Neolithic pits and 16 Late Neolithic pits associated with Grooved Ware pottery. The pits have been radiocarbon dated to broadly c.2900-2500calBC, although the elk antler itself, possibly curated, remains to be dated. A single Early Bronze Age un-urned cremation burial and a slightly later inhumation burial were also located in the south-west of the site. The latter was surrounded by a double ring-ditch and probably capped by a barrow. A second, undated probable barrow lay in the north of the site. A multi-phased Middle Bronze Age settlement and enclosure system dominated the eastern part of the site, comprising lines of postholes forming enclosures and paths, along with a ditched rectilinear enclosure. Three wells were dug across the east of the site. One of these contained a Middle Bronze Age pottery assemblage. There were up to 10 post-built roundhouse-type structures, as well as several other structural forms. A post-Roman enclosure ditch with causeway, lying largely beyond the north of the site's limits, has been radiocarbon dated to the 7th-8th centuries AD (Early/Middle Saxon period). This was evidently modified, part-backfilled and cut through by a well. None of these later features producing contemporary finds. Multiple phases of post-medieval (and earlier) ditches marking Ashwell Street were also present, itself forming a hollow way, as well as later post-medieval tracks. These were filled in by the time of enclosure in 1840 and the construction of New Road.
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Author:
S Ladd
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Publisher:
Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge)
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:
2018
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Locations:
Site:
Land east of New Road
County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire
Parish:
MELBOURN
Country:
England
Grid Reference: 539000, 244000 (Easting, Northing)
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Subjects / Periods:
LATER PREHISTORIC
(Historic England Periods)
ANIMAL REMAINS
(Object England)
UNCERTAIN
(Historic England Periods)
BEAD
(Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
BRICK
(Object England)
ROMAN
(Historic England Periods)
BROOCH
(Object England)
EARLY BRONZE AGE
(Historic England Periods)
HUMAN REMAINS
(Object England)
NEOLITHIC
(Historic England Periods)
HUMAN REMAINS
(Object England)
LATER PREHISTORIC
(Historic England Periods)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT
(Object England)
LATE NEOLITHIC
(Historic England Periods)
MOLLUSCA REMAINS
(Object England)
LATER PREHISTORIC
(Historic England Periods)
SHERD
(Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
SHERD
(Object England)
ROMAN
(Historic England Periods)
BEAM SLOT
(Monument Type England)
EARLY BRONZE AGE
(Historic England Periods)
CREMATION
(Monument Type England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
DITCH
(Monument Type England)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE
(Historic England Periods)
DITCH
(Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
DITCH
(Monument Type England)
LATE MESOLITHIC
(Historic England Periods)
HOLLOW
(Monument Type England)
EARLY BRONZE AGE
(Historic England Periods)
INHUMATION
(Monument Type England)
LATE NEOLITHIC
(Historic England Periods)
PIT
(Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
PIT
(Monument Type England)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE
(Historic England Periods)
POST HOLE
(Monument Type England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
WELL
(Monument Type England)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE
(Historic England Periods)
WELL
(Monument Type England)
EXCAVATION
(Event)
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OASIS Id:
oxfordar3-318575
OBIB:
OAE report 2189
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A4 paper bound report
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https://library.thehumanjourney.net/4940/
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Created Date:
29 Oct 2021
