This is a child collection of the main A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon archaeological project archive. For the purposes of analysis, the various Targeted Excavation Areas (TEAs) that formed the mitigation work have been grouped into eight Landscape Blocks.

This child collection concerns the Conington Landscape Block. Conington comprised two adjacent TEAs (32 and 33) covering c 21.4 hectares. Excavations within the landscape block identified evidence of small-scale early-middle Neolithic activity, with more intense land use occurring during the Bronze Age. The latter comprised three small ring-ditches (possibly early Bronze Age barrows) and two square livestock enclosures, which dated to the middle Bronze Age. At the eastern end of the site, parts of a field system and a series of wells were identified that were likely associated with these enclosures. During the middle Iron Age, activity was focused in the central part of the site and comprised a series of sub-square and circular enclosures positioned along the line of a north-east to south-west orientated boundary ditch. Romano-British activity was extensive within the landscape block and included a series of field systems along with numerous enclosures and structures. These remains probably represent the fringes of a larger roadside settlement positioned along the route of the Roman Via Devana, heading towards Fenstanton. The remains of an unenclosed early Anglo-Saxon settlement were recorded in the same general area as the Roman settlement, with many sunken-featured buildings revealed. This was superseded by a series of intercutting enclosures of middle Saxon date. Occupation of the site appears to have ceased in the late eighth–early ninth century AD and was marked by the removal of an elaborate gate structure and the prone interment of a young adult female into the top of an associated post-pit. Medieval to modern evidence from the site relates exclusively to agricultural and quarrying activities, with no evidence of settlement.