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Girton College, West Field, Cambridge: An Archaeological Evaluation |
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
In April 2014 the Cambridge Archaeological Unit excavated nine evaluation trenches with a total length of 260.5m within the West Field of Girton College. With the exception of residual finds of worked flint and Late Bronze-Early Iron Age pottery, prehistoric activity was not represented by any features. This was also the case for the Roman evidence, illustrated by four small abraded sherds of 1st-2nd century AD pottery. This, along with a complete absence of Anglo-Saxon activity, confirms the western limit for the Roman and Saxon cemetery found during the construction of College buildings in the later 19th century, and a northern limit for equivalent prehistoric activity recently exposed in the North West Cambridge development project. Overall, the study area's archaeology is comprised of the partial survival of a regular furrow system preceding a a rectilinear cluster of pits containing a small amount of both Roman and Late Medieval pottery. Certainly by the 16th-17th centuries the furrow system is in disuse, although linear slots for drainage continue to be cut in subsequent centuries along the same east-west course as the furrows, and thereby maximising the natural south-eastern landfall. Early 20th century service mains and garden bedding plots represent the most recent features. Undated features include two pits or postholes and a gully terminus, all within the northern half of the study area. |
Author: |
M. Brittain
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Publisher: |
Cambridge Archaeological Unit
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2014
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Girton College, West Field |
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Cambridgeshire |
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South Cambridgeshire |
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GIRTON |
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England |
Grid Reference: 542255, 261091 (Easting, Northing)
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cambridg3-178289 |
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Report no. 1231 |
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34 pages, 2 tables, 7 colour and B/W figures, 7 sections
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01 Feb 2018 |