Pullen, A. G., Hinman, M., Woolhouse, T., Morgan-Shelbourne, L., Beveridge, R., Rielly, K., Deighton, K., Turner, K. and Boardman, S. (2023). An Iron Age Settlement at Barrington. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 112. Vol 112, Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society. pp. 33-49. https://doi.org/10.5284/1116731.
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An Iron Age Settlement at Barrington
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 112
Archaeological excavations at the former CEMEX Cement Works, Barrington, revealed evidence for an Iron Age settlement dating to between c. 400 and 200 cal. BC. A variety of domestic archaeological features, including storage pits, numerous cooking pits, probable clay extraction pits for making daub, a waterhole, and at least six four-post structures were excavated. Within some of the storage pits was evidence for so-called ‘special’ deposition of both animal bone (including a complete calf skeleton) and disarticulated and cremated human bone. Part of what may have been an extensive system of rectilinearly organised (co-axial) ditches appears to pre-date most of the Iron Age pits and is thought likely to have origins in the Middle Bronze Age. Significantly, it appears that this field system was still a visible and, in part, still-maintained aspect of the local landscape into the Middle Iron Age.
