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Land off Auckland Road, Cambridge: An Archaeological Evaluation |
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Between 29th-31st May 2012 an archaeological trench evaluation was carried on a small building plot (165 sq m) located on the east side of Auckland Road, Cambridge in advance of the construction of the Beth Shalom synagogue and community centre. Beneath a layer of modern building rubble, 19th-century garden soil and re-deposited gravel lay the truncated surface of a complex sequence of early post-medieval backfilled quarry pits and spoil dumps. These probable square and rectangular pits were all different sizes and lay adjacent to one another, some of them slightly intercutting, with others cut from the top of the subsoil or into already quarried ground. In order to best record these the 11m long trench was machined down to the underlying natural (marly gravel) surface into which the bases of a number of round to oval or moon-shaped quarry pits had been cut. None of the coarseware pottery recovered from the pit fills and quarry-spoil dump layers appeared to be later than 16th century AD in date, whilst most of these were of locally-made 15th century types. It seems likely therefore that this area of ground on the edge of the First/Second Gravel Terraces was intensively quarried and re-quarried during the 16th-17th centuries, prior to subsequent re-development. The late medieval (15th-century) pottery found within these quarry fills was probably re-deposited, and therefore reflects the presence of contemporary settlement within this area between Barnwell and the town of Cambridge. Also re-deposited within the quarry waste and soil backfill were a number of Mesolithic-Early Neolithic flint blades and microliths, suggesting the presence of prehistoric flint-working sites along the riverside. |
Author: |
Simon Timberlake
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Publisher: |
Cambridge Archaeological Unit
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2012
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Locations: |
Site: |
Land off Auckland Road, Cambridge |
Parish: |
CAMBRIDGE |
District: |
Cambridge |
County: |
Cambridgeshire |
Country: |
England |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Cambridge |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Barnwell |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Auckland Road Cambridge |
Grid Reference: 545890, 258900 (Easting, Northing)
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Subjects / Periods: |
EARLY NEOLITHIC
(Historic England Periods)
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Flint
(Find)
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POST MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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POT
(Object England)
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POST MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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Quarry Pits
(Monus)
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16th Century Ad (Auto Detected Temporal) |
15th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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TRIAL TRENCH
(Event)
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Prehistoric (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Neolithic (Auto Detected Temporal) |
MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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Identifiers: |
OASIS Id: |
cambridg3-131134 |
OBIB: |
1099 |
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Note: |
A4 Booklet, Pdf document
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Created Date: |
25 Nov 2016 |