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Land at Honeysome Road, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, PE16 6RZ: An Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation |
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Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd (London) unpublished report series
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This report describes the results of an archaeological trial trench evaluation carried out by Pre-Construct Archaeology on land at Honeysome Road, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire (NGR TL 3820 8637) between the 19th and the 28th October 2015. The archaeological work was commissioned by CgMs Consulting Ltd in response to a Brief for Archaeological Evaluation (Stewart 2015) of the Cambridgeshire County Council Historic Environment Team (CCCHET). The aim of the work was to characterise the archaeological potential of the proposed development area. The earliest activity was represented by several peat deposits sealed below silt and alluvial clay relating to episodes of flooding and marine inundations. One of the lowest peat deposits recorded at the edge of a possible palaeochannel yielded a number of pieces of wood, of which some showed evidence for being worked. Samples of the worked wood were submitted for dendrochronological dating, however no reliable date could be determined from the samples. The sequence of fen deposits, around the Chatteris 'island' and the Cambridgeshire fens, formed as early as the Mesolithic and Neolithic in low lying land, such as rivers and meres, with further peat forming in the later Bronze Age following major lowland inundations. However, aside from some worked wood, no dating evidence was recovered from the deposits in the evaluation trenches. A number of later, peat-filled ditches were also recorded across the site, cutting through the alluvial deposits, possibly serving as claying or drainage ditches. The drainage of the Fens began initially in the 17th Century although the ditches identified on site were undated and could date from the late 17th to the 19th century. The area around the Chatteris 'island' was drained into the Forty Foot Drain and the Sixteen Foot drain, which were originally cut during Vermuyden's second phase of drainage works in 1651. |
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M Jones
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Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2015
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Land at Honeysome Road, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, PE16 6RZ: An Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation |
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CHATTERIS |
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Fenland |
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Cambridgeshire |
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England |
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Chatteris |
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Honeysome Road Chatteris Cambridgeshire |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Cambridgeshire |
Grid Reference: 538200, 286370 (Easting, Northing)
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preconst1-230769 |
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A4 bound report including figures, tables and plates.
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28 Nov 2016 |