Thatcher, C. and Billington, L. (2022). Early Romano-British settlement and land use south of Gidding Road, Sawtry. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 111. Vol 111, Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society. pp. 63-80.
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Early Romano-British settlement and land use south of Gidding Road, Sawtry | ||||||||||||||
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 111 | ||||||||||||||
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society | ||||||||||||||
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63 - 80 | ||||||||||||||
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Excavations to the south of Gidding Road, Sawtry revealed remains relating to an extensive Romano-British farmstead, laid out on either side of a palaeochannel of the Sawtry Brook. Activity may have begun in the late Iron Age or immediate post-conquest period, when ditched boundaries were laid out. In the southern part of the site these were associated with a small cluster of probable roundhouse ring gullies, whilst to the north several large waterholes were revealed, one of which produced a pollen sequence providing evidence for the local environment of the site throughout the Romano-British occupation. Later in the 1st century AD, a major east to west aligned trackway was established parallel to the palaeochannel, and this was associated with a complex of multiphase rectilinear enclosures. Although there was no trace of contemporary structures, sustained settlement-type activity is indicated by associated finds and environmental remains, especially in terms of a substantial assemblage of early–mid Roman pottery. Dating evidence clearly indicates that activity within the excavation area had all but ceased by the mid-2nd century AD, and post-Roman remains were restricted to small quantities of early/middle Anglo-Saxon pottery associated with another large waterhole in the northern part of the site. | ||||||||||||||
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27 Oct 2022 |
