Woolhouse, T., Sudds, B., Lucking, T., Deighton, K., Turner, K. and Boardman, S. (2023). Middle Anglo-Saxon to Early Medieval settlement at Church End, Arrington. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 112. Vol 112, Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society. pp. 79-98. https://doi.org/10.5284/1116734.
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Middle Anglo-Saxon to Early Medieval settlement at Church End, Arrington
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 112
Excavation in advance of construction of a house at Church End, Arrington, revealed part of a Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon settlement comprising three post-built buildings and associated pits set within a system of ditched enclosures. Finds and environmental evidence reflect domestic activity, with the range of handmade pottery, Middle Anglo-Saxon Ipswich and Southern Maxey-type wares, and Late Saxon St Neots ware suggesting occupation from the c. 8th/9th to 10th/11th centuries, continuing to around AD 1200. One of the pits contained a silver penny of King Æthelberht of Wessex (AD 858–864), thought to be the first coin of Æthelberht recorded from Cambridgeshire. The principal results of the project are described and contextualised and the implications for understanding of Arrington’s development considered.
