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Victoria Way, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire Assessment Report: Archaeological Evaluation by Trial Trenches and Soil Testing |
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Network Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
A trench evaluation at Victoria Way, Melbourn, consisted of the excavation of six 50m-long trenches along with a programme of sampling and sieving of ploughsoil and subsoils for artefacts. A number of small ditches, gullies, shallow postholes, and deposits associated with lithic artefacts were identified. Archaeological features included a possible field system comprising two parallel ditches, one of which contained Bronze Age to Iron Age worked flints, possible Bronze Age pottery, and environmental evidence of former agriculture. The ditch also produced Mesolithic to early Neolithic flints, indicating earlier prehistoric activity at the site. A single piece of Roman pottery along with fired clay fragments were found in association with two curvilinear gullies. A parallel ditch and gully, both undated, may have been the remnants of a former field system. A thick layer of colluvium in the north-eastern part of the site apparently filled a periglacial feature, below which a possible 'buried soil' produced environmental evidence indicating that it likely supported a short-turfed grassland. The colluvium and the buried soil both yielded small quantities of Mesolithic to early Neolithic worked flints. Sieving of the topsoil and subsoil samples recovered a small quantity of worked flint, but no significant concentrations were identified. |
Author: |
S Thorpe
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Publisher: |
Network Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2015
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Victoria Way, Melbourn |
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Cambridgeshire |
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South Cambridgeshire |
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MELBOURN |
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England |
Grid Reference: 538545, 243976 (Easting, Northing)
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networka2-201302 |
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Client report, 57 pages; main text; appendices including context data, finds catalogue, specialist reports; 17 colour plates, 6 pages illustrations, including location maps, trench plans and section drawings
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01 Feb 2018 |