Woolhouse, T. (2012). Late Bronze Age and Iron Age activity on the Littleport Fen Edge. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 101. Vol 101, pp. 23-30. https://doi.org/10.5284/1073451. Cite this via datacite

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Title:		 Late Bronze Age and Iron Age activity on the Littleport Fen Edge
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Issue:		 Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 101
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Volume:		 101
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Number of Pages:		 211
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Page Start/End:		 23 - 30
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Abstract:		 Between June 2005 and February 2008, Archaeological Solutions carried out two stages of archaeological investigation on land adjoining 80 Wisbech Road, Littleport, Cambridgeshire, in advance of development. The site encompassed part of the former fen edge on the north side of Littleport 'island'. The investigations revealed three phases of activity, focused on the higher, drier, southern part of the site. Scattered struck flint indicated sporadic activity during the early Neolithic (Phase 1). In the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age (Phase 2) numerous shallow pits, some containing pottery and occasional daub fragments, suggest the site lay within paddocks on the periphery of a settlement further to the south. Remains of two ditches, the larger of which ran down into the fen, suggest that similar agricultural land use continued into the late Iron Age (Phase 3). Part of a ?curated Mesolithic/Neolithic quartzite pebble hammer was found in the upper fill of the larger ditch, close to its terminus. This might represent a deliberately placed votive deposit. Column samples contained well-preserved pollen evidence for later prehistoric environmental change and agriculture in this part of Littleport.
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Author:		 Thomas Woolhouse
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Year of Publication:		 2012
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Daub (Auto Detected Subject)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods)
Flint (Auto Detected Subject)
PIT (Monument Type England)
DITCH (Monument Type England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
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DITCH (Monument Type England)
LATE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)
EARLY NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)
EARLY IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
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Created Date:		 11 May 2015