Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 92

Excavation on land between Prickwillow Road and High Barns found part of a rural settlement, occupied intermittently from the fifth to the third century BC and then continuously into the second half of the fourth century AD. The main settlement focus may have been outside the excavation area. Evidence from animal bones, artefacts and environmental samples suggests a mixture of arable and pastoral farming in both the Iron Age and Roman periods. Iron Age occupation consisted of a fragmentary ditch, a few pits, two crouched inhumations and a dog burial. Later (c. third century BC) a rounded enclosure was constructed, outside of which was a midden. This enclosure continued in use into the Early Roman period. The Roman enclosures and field systems covered much of the excavation area by the second century AD. Roman features up to the third century mostly consisted of linear and curvilinear ditches. From the third century there was a series of rectilinear enclosures, supplanted in the fourth century by a D-shaped enclosure with evidence of other ditches. Two ovens were the only structures which survived later truncation. To the south-west was a small mixed cremation/inhumation cemetery probably in use from the early-second century to the fourth century AD. Includes reports on

including Iron Age brooches and bead, Roman grave goods and hobnails, other personalia, Iron Age antler peg, Roman household equipment, coins, nails, glass, whetstones, pottery kiln furniture, fuel ash residue, quernstones, lead weight and lead pot mend, wall plaster, fired clay/daub, and tile

Part of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery was investigated in 2000 in advance of housing development. The cemetery was in use for around 100 years between c. AD 575 and c. AD 675. A total of fifty-two graves, containing the remains of fifty-nine individuals, were excavated. One further isolated grave lay approximately 20m northwest of the main burial area. The graves were organised around a number of focal points, including a richly furnished, female, `founder' burial and a variety of distinctive cemetery structures. Three-quarters of the burials were accompanied by grave goods. The assemblage of human bone is informative due to its good preservation and recovery. There is a high degree of reuse of grave-plots. No physical remains of boundary markers were found. Further burials are believed to have existed to the west. Earlier excavations in the vicinity in 1956 uncovered twenty-eight graves containing thirty individuals; however the exact location and plan of these investigations are now lost. In addition to the Anglo-Saxon cemetery, a number of earlier features were investigated; these dated principally to the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age and the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age. Includes reports on

including items of personal adornment and costume; toiletry items; keys and padlocks; tools; chatelaines, a girdle group and a bag; wooden and ceramic vessels; and spears

including footwear and leatherworking waste

Historical account of the Conservators, set up by an Act in 1702 to restore and maintain navigation of the River Cam from Cambridge to Clayhithe. The body built four locks or `sluices' which were later replaced with the two known today. Includes

Explores the archaeology and history of the Round Hill at Conington in Huntingdonshire, concluding that it was the site of a detached lodge or belvedere built a little before 1600 by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

Short, separately authored summaries on topics including patterns of arable farming; transport and the rural economy since 1750; prehistoric Cambridgeshire; the Black Fens; twentieth-century smallholdings; and the Chivers and Son company.