Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 83

The report presents an interim summary of the results of the second stage of an ongoing programme of archaeological investigations at Little Paxton Quarry, Diddington. The investigations involved the evaluation of a cropmark settlement focus located in the southwest zone of the quarry concession, followed by area excavations in advance of quarrying. Features from the Late Neolithic, mainly comprising pits or post-holes, were succeeded by two roughly circular Early Bronze Age structures. The next phase of activity dated to the Middle Iron Age, when an enclosure, well, and group of ditches were followed by two adjoining ditched enclosures; a further ditched enclosure dated to the Later Iron Age. Includes separately authored reports on

A Roman settlement site was investigated on the National Trust estate of Wimpole, in advance of a road improvement scheme. Archaeological remains were found along the A14 Roman road (Ermine Street) which appear to comprise part of a ribbon settlement. A series of substantial ditches were revealed forming rectangular enclosures, interpreted as paddocks, garden plots, and small domestic enclosures. A cobbled surface was interpreted as a yard surface. A large volume of pottery including high quality table ware was recovered, as well as quantities of animal bones. An Anglo-Saxon burial of the sixth century AD appears to represent the last phase of occupation of the site. Includes specialist reports on

Report on the excavation of two adjacent sites in 1958 and 1959 respectively, at Great Staughton. Site 1 was first occupied in the Late Iron Age. In the first half of the fourth century AD two contemporaneous, winged-corridor type buildings were constructed apparently representing a villa (Site 1) and its bath-house (Site 2). Both buildings contained mosaics. Site 2 was heated by channelled hypocausts and contained a small bath-suite, the whole building having been adapted from part of an earlier, possibly second-century AD, much larger structure, whose full extent was not ascertained. The fourth-century occupation appears to have ceased around the 360s AD, and at some unknown date thereafter at least seven inhumation burials were inserted into the demolition rubble covering the Site 1 house. Includes specialist reports on

Article on the design, history, monuments, decorations and art works of the east end of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and their relation to the prevailing religious, social, artistic and architectural movements from 1448 to the late-twentieth century.