This collection represents the primary digital archive for the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon archaeological project. It is organised as a parent collection, covering scheme-wide documents (Trial trenching, Post-excavation assessments, and specialist methodologies, papers and overviews); and nine child collections, each containing detailed records for a single landscape block (including Huntingdon). Each collection features:

• Introduction to the project or landscape block
• Overview of the outputs
• Downloads, including archaeology and specialist reports, photos, drawings, context sheets, GIS layers, and specialist database outputs
• Online map viewer with search facility
• Query interface to search the project database in detail
• Metadata
• Usage statistics

The physical archive, including artefactual and environmental material and the paper records, is managed by the Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Team (CHET) in Cambridgeshire County Council’s publicly accessible, accredited storage facility. The digital archive is linked to the CHET physical archive by the ECB numbers shown in the reports and database interface.

Additional outputs from the project include:

• Internet Archaeology monograph, ‘A Route Well Travelled’: principal overview of the project by period, and a gateway to its findings. doi.org/10.11141/ia.67.22
• Print MHI monograph, ‘Time Traveller’s Tales’: a series of five period-based essays, based upon certain aspects of the A14 results, but placing them in their wider geographical and (where relevant) historical contexts.
• Journal and magazine articles
• Shaffrey R 2022 ‘Quern development and use in the Cambridge Area from the Bronze Age to the Roman period’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society CXI, 7-22
• Shaffrey R 2022 ‘Meaning in Millstones: Phallic Imagery on Romano-British Millstones' Britannia 53, 357-70
• Current Archaeology 2023 ‘The Conington teenager; Being different in Anglo- Saxon England’, Current Archaeology 403, October 2023, 48-9
• Hewson L 2023 ‘Pure and sample: An assessment of the impacts of sampling on the interpretation of a Roman pottery assemblage from the A14C2H excavations’ Journal of Roman pottery studies 20
• Moretti D, Scholma-Mason O and Christie C 2023 ‘Two Thousand Years of Occupation at Mill Common, Huntingdon’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society CXII, 113-132
• Current Archaeology 2024 ‘From the Caucasus to Cambridgeshire: Retracing the story of Offord Cluny’s ‘Sarmatian’ burial’, Current Archaeology 408, March 2024, 18-24
• Silva M, Booth T, Moore J, Anastasiadou K, Walker D, Gilardet A, Barrington C, Kelly M, Williams M, Henderson M, Smith A, Bowsher D, Montgomery J, and Skoglund P 2024 ‘An individual with Sarmatian-related ancestry in Roman Britain’. Current Biology 34, 109, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.049
• Manby, K J B, 2024 ‘How do you solve a problem like nails? A new, multi-period methodology and typology for recording iron nails’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 43(2), 173–194, doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12291
• Smith, A, West, E and Bowsher, D, 2024 ‘From Mammoths to Medieval Villages: The Archaeology of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society CXIII
• Carretero, L G (forthcoming) ‘A taste for local food: analysis of archaeological cereal-based foods from the East of England’, Antiquity. Preprint available doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2669102/v1
• Moretti, D (forthcoming) ‘Huntingdon’s Forgotten Railway Station’, Post-medieval Archaeology
• Sutton, A (forthcoming) ‘Approaching connectivity and community through rural crafts in early Roman Cambridgeshire: the case of the Lower Ouse Valley potteries’ Britannia
• Wallace, M, Montgomery, J, Roger, B, Moore, J, Nowell, G, and Smith, A (2024) ‘Revealing continuity and sustainability through isotope analysis on the A14 project, Cambridgeshire, UK’, Quaternary Science Reviews, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109059
• Boismier, B, Batchelor, CR, Banerjee, R, Allison, E, Dark, P, Dudgeon, K, Green, CP, Weinstock, J, Young, DS, Ardis, C, Ladocha, J, Henderson, E and Schwenninger, JL (2024) ‘Watching Brief Investigation of Borrow Pit TEA 28 BP3, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, UK’, Internet Archaeology Report doi.org/10.11141/ia.67.23
• Smith, A, West, E, Sherlock, S, Gdaniec, K, and Bowsher, D (2024) ‘Great Excavations: methodological considerations from a major archaeological infrastructure project in the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme’, Internet Archaeology Report doi.org/10.11141/ia.67.21
• Popular print book, ‘Unearthing the A14: 50 objects from one of Britain’s biggest digs’: brings together a selection of artefacts and ecofacts chosen for the stories they tell us about the lives of people in this part of Cambridgeshire from early prehistory to the present day:
• Digital interactives: Various digital story maps, enabling users to delve into a number of different aspects of the A14 archaeology, including ‘Ritual, Death and Magic’, ‘Crafts, Industry and Trade’, ‘Animals of the A14’ and even ‘Expect the Unexpected’
• ‘A14 Road Trip to the Past’ A14 storymaps
• ‘A14: The evolution of a landscape through time’ A14 storymap
• YouTube video presentations: presentations by members of the project team on: ‘A14: A Landscape through Time’; ‘Peopling the A14: Life and Death in Ancient Cambridgeshire’; ‘Environmental Archaeology and the A14’; ‘Introducing the Lower Ouse Valley pottery Industry’ and ‘Life, Death and Magic: artefacts from Iron Age and Roman Cambridgeshire’. These can be found on the A14 specialist talks YouTube playlist