Data from an Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation at Ambury Road South, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 2021.
Albion Archaeology, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5284/1112184. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
This collection comprises images, CAD files and a Written Scheme of Investigation for the trial trench evaluation carried out in February 2021 by Albion Archaeology, prior to the residential development of land at the north-west end of the former Anglian House site in Ambury Road South, Huntingdon.
Huntingdonshire District Council granted planning permission for the erection of 10 residential properties, car parking and associated landscaping on land at the site. Because of the high archaeological potential of the permitted development area, the Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Team recommended a condition was attached to the planning consent, requiring the implementation of a programme of archaeological investigation.
The trial trenching comprised the excavation of five c. 5m x 5m trial trenches. The trenching found no evidence for any former settlement and historical maps confirm that the site remained undeveloped until c.1980. Alluvial deposits and palaeochannel silts indicated that conditions were probably far too wet to support the significant expansion of the town along Ambury Road in the medieval or post-medieval periods. A late-19th-century well was the only structure identified, and this was probably within a private garden. This was not collected in the OASIS IV report when this record was originally created
