Chapman, A., Carlyle, S. and Leigh, D. J. (2005). Neolithic and Beaker pits and a Bronze Age landscape at Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 94. Vol 94, pp. 5-20. https://doi.org/10.5284/1073329. Cite this via datacite
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Neolithic and Beaker pits and a Bronze Age landscape at Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Archaeological excavation was carried out at Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, in advance of residential development and associated works to investigate parts of a cropmark complex. At least sporadic use of the area over several centuries was marked by small quantities of Middle Neolithic impressed ware (Peterborough ware) and Late Neolithic Grooved ware recovered from several small pits. This activity continued and perhaps increased towards the end of the third millennium BC with a pit complex and a single pit producing quantities of Beaker pottery and some flint, with the pottery comprising small numbers of sherds from numerous vessels perhaps as offerings of selected items. Two pits containing small amounts of unworked waterlogged wood have been radiocarbon dated to the Middle Bronze Age, the mid- to late-second millennium BC. By this time the development of permanent settlement within an organised landscape is marked by a parallel ditch system, in excess of 500m long, defining a linear track or droveway, perhaps linking summer grazing areas on the fens with winter grazing on the higher ground to the south. The only dating for this feature and an adjacent ring ditch are small quantities of undecorated pottery broadly dated to the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age, indicating that the landscape organisation remained much the same well into the first millennium BC. There was no evidence of Iron Age settlement nearby, but Roman ditch systems are probably part of an expansion of settlement onto the lower lying areas in the Roman period. A medieval structure of unknown function was also investigated. Includes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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10 Mar 2006 |