Billington, L., Moan, L. and Phillips, T. (2021). Middle Bronze Age field systems, Late Bronze Age post alignments and an Iron Age trackway at the Bell Language School, Cambridge. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 110. Vol 110, Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society. pp. 7-24.

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Title:		 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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Issue:		 Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 110
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Volume:		 110
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Page Start/End:		 7 - 24
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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– forming part of an extensive set of field systems recorded across the wider landscape – were laid out, before being superseded by a series of linear post alignments and a pit alignment.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.
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Author:		 Lawrence Billington
Louise Moan
Tom Phillips
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Publisher:		 Cambridge Antiquarian Society
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Year of Publication:		 2021
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Bell Language School
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
England
OSGB 467200 548700
pits
ditched boundaries
Post alignments
pit alignment
trackway
field system
Early Bronze Age -2600 to -1600
Middle Bronze Age -1600 to -1200
Late Bronze Age -2600 to -700
Early Iron Age-800 to -300
Roman 43 to 410 (AD)
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Created Date:		 28 Jan 2022