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Middle Bronze Age field systems, Late Bronze Age post alignments and an Iron Age trackway at the Bell Language School, Cambridge
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 110 |
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society
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110
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7 - 24 |
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PCAS_CX_2021_007-024_Billington_Moan_Phillips.pdf (4 MB)
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Journal
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| Abstract: |
Within an intensively excavated landscape on the eastern fringes of the Cam Valley, sits the Bell Language School. Excavations here in 2014 revealed a long sequence of landuse,beginning in the Early Bronze Age with a series of pits associated with burnt stone and flint. In the Middle Bronze Age, ditched boundaries – forming part of an extensive set of field systems recorded across the wider landscape – were laid out, before being superseded by a series of linear post alignments and a pit alignment. Probably dating to the Late Bronze Age, the post alignments are an unusual discovery and find their closest regional parallels with a set of post alignments at Barleycroft Farm in the lower Ouse Valley. Aligned broadly parallel to, and post-dating the post alignments, were the remains of an extensive cobbled trackway surface, thought to originate in the Early Iron Age, but continuing in use until the Early Roman period, when it was incorporated into a field system including an area of cultivation beds. Emphasising the remarkable sequence of prehistoric boundary/routeway features, this article places the excavation results in the context of the heavily exploited landscapes to the south of Cambridge. |
| Year of Publication: |
2021
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Bell Language School
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Cambridge
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Cambridgeshire
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England
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OSGB 467200 548700
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pits
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ditched boundaries
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Post alignments
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pit alignment
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trackway
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field system
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Early Bronze Age -2600 to -1600
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Middle Bronze Age -1600 to -1200
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Late Bronze Age -2600 to -700
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Early Iron Age-800 to -300
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Roman 43 to 410 (AD)
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ADS Archive
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| Created Date: |
28 Jan 2022 |
