Title: |
Barrington Cement Quarry, Cambridgeshire. Archaeological Evaluation below Barrington Ridge |
Number of Pages: |
202 |
Biblio Note |
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Publication Type: |
Report
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Abstract: |
During an evaluation, large quantities of artefacts, particularly Iron Age pottery, were recovered. Radiocarbon dating tentatively placed an important group of features, including a rectangular enclosure and pit group, in the Middle Bronze Age with two ring ditches apparently being earlier (although the artefacts from the rectangular enclosure and pit group may alternatively have suggested an Early Bronze Age date). The Iron Age artefacts functioned between 50BC and 70AD with the Roman site having its origins in the Flavian period, after c.69AD. Collectively, the orientation and alignment of the prehistoric sites may have suggested a zone of early landscape clearance and communication running north-west to south-east through the central area of the evaluation site. Despite clear indications of remnant ridge and furrow in both the aerial photography and geophysical surveys, this survived poorly below the ground. There was no evidence of Anglo-Saxon activity. [Au(abr)] |
Author: |
Alison Dickens
Knight M
Grahame A Appleby
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Publisher: |
Cambridge Archaeological Unit
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Year of Publication: |
2006
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Subjects / Periods: |
ROMAN
(Historic England Periods)
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Flavian (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Early Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Prehistoric (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Middle Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
2006
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: BARRINGTON CEMENT QUARRY Study area: Investigation type: Evaluation District: South Cambridgeshire Monument: RIDGE AND FURROW. Medieval (1066-1540), PIT CLUSTER. Middle Bronze Age, FIELD SYSTEM. Roman (AD43-410), [finds]. Roman (AD43-410), [finds]. Early Bronze Age, [finds]. Iron Age, ENCLOSURE. Middle Bronze Age Ngr: TL38505150 Parish: Barrington Postcode: CB2 5SQ
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Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |