Chapman, A. and Chapman, P. (2016). A Bronze Age monument complex and Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement at Cambridge Road, Bedford: Excavation 2004 - 2005. Northampton: MOLA Northampton. https://doi.org/10.5284/1045178. Cite this using datacite

Title The title of the publication or report Title:	A Bronze Age monument complex and Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement at Cambridge Road, Bedford: Excavation 2004 - 2005
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Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report Abstract:	Northamptonshire Archaeology (now MOLA Northampton) carried out open area excavation on 14.45ha of land. Early Neolithic flint and a polished stone axe was possibly related to the nearby Cardington causewayed enclosure. Two Early Bronze Age ring ditches sat on a gravel ridge between the River Great Ouse and Elstow Brook. A small round barrow, 6.5m diameter, enclosed a deep grave containing the crouched burial of a woman within an oak-lined chamber. Within a nearby ring ditch, 30m diameter, a pit containing three crouched burials, probably within an oak chamber, is radiocarbon dated to the early in the Middle Bronze Age. East of the large ring ditch, an L-shaped ditch with a central opening, radiocarbon dated to the Middle/Late Bronze Age transition, is perhaps the final feature of the monument group, paralleling similar features at other contemporary ring ditch monuments. Shallow rectilinear ditches formed a land boundary extending north and south from the Bronze Age ring ditch, and other contemporary ditches were remnants of a rectilinear field system. A contemporary waterhole produced waterlogged wood and the final fill contained decorated pottery of the Early Iron Age. Three ditches formed a Middle/Late Iron Age boundary ditch system, also aligned north-south, with a nearby rectangular enclosure. Use of the boundary system continued into the Roman period, when it defined the western limit of an extensive Romano-British ladder settlement, dated to the 1st to 4th centuries AD. Only the northern fringe lay within the excavated area, but this contained a dense system of successive boundary ditches, along with pits, a stone-lined well and an inhumation burial. Anglo-Saxon sunken-featured buildings are dated to the 5th-6th centuries, and a middle Saxon mausoleum containing a single inhumation with a second inhumation outside is dated to the late 8th century. Thereafter the land was under agricultural use, with remnant furrows of the medieval ridge and furrow system.
Author The authors of this publication or report Author:	A Chapman P Chapman
Publisher The publisher of the publication or report Publisher:	MOLA Northampton
Other Person/Org Other people or organisations for this publication or report Other Person/Org:	Historic England (OASIS Reviewer) Please note: this record has been validated by-proxy by Historic England.
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published Year of Publication:	2016
Locations Any locations covered by the publication or report. This is not the place the book or report was published. Locations:	Site: Cambridge Road County: Bedfordshire District: Bedford Parish: EASTCOTTS Country: England Grid Reference: 507560, 248070 (Easting, Northing)
Subjects / Periods Subjects / Periods associated with this record. Subjects / Periods:	EARLY NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) WORKED FLINT, LANGDALE STONE AXE (Find) EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SUNKEN FEATURED BUILDING (Monument Type England) MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) BURIAL (Monument Type England) LATE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) L-SHAPED DITCH, RECTANGULAR FIELD SYSTEM, WATERHOLE (Monus) ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SETTLEMENT (Monument Type England) MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE, DOUBLE BOUNDARY DITCH (Monus) EARLY IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) RECTANGULAR FIELD SYSTEM, WATERHOLE (Monus) MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) RIDGE AND FURROW (Monument Type England) EARLY BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) RING DITCH (Monument Type England) EARLY IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England) EARLY BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England) ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England) MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England) IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England) MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England) GRUBENHAUS (Monument Type England) EXCAVATION (Event)
Identifiers Identifiers associated with the publication. These might include DOIs, site codes, Monument Identifiers etc. Identifiers:	OASIS Id: molanort1-250081 OBIB: 16/76
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