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Windmill Row, St Neots, Cambridgeshire |
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Archaeological Solutions Ltd unpublished report series
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In October 2016 Archaeological Solutions Ltd (AS) carried out an archaeological trial trench on land at Windmill Row, St Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 1JF (NGR TL 1840 6017). The evaluation was undertaken to provide information in advance of the determination of a planning application for the proposed erection of nine dwellings following the demolition of an existing garage workshop. It was undertaken based on the advice of Cambridgeshire County Council Historic Environment Team (CCC HET), advisors to Huntingdon District Council. The site lies within the medieval and post-medieval settlement core area of St Neots, to the rear of the plots fronting the High Street to the north. St Neots dates to the late Saxon period and the town developed in the medieval and post-medieval periods. The medieval pattern of properties fronting the market place can be seen to the west, and the medieval parish church of St Mary lies to the immediate east (CHER14932). The Benedictine Priory at St Ives, Scheduled as an Ancient Monument, lies 150m to the north west (SM 101). Archaeological investigations have been carried out by AS to the immediate east of the site in advance of development, revealing occupation spanning the early medieval to the post-medieval periods (CHER ECB3281; Pozorski and Smith 2009). The earliest pottery recovered during the evaluation was a residual Early - Middle Saxon sherd from Ditch F1010 (Trench 1). The other sherd from the feature is Saxon (10th - 12th century) pottery. No early features were present in Trench 2, but Trench 3 contained a medieval (late 12th - 13th century) pit (F1059), and a medieval (11th - 13th century) ditch (F1061). The evaluation has demonstrated that below 19th and 20th century building remains, medieval and potentially Saxon features survive, particularly in Trenches 1 and 3. |
Author: |
G Barlow
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Publisher: |
Archaeological Solutions Ltd
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2016
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Land at Windmill Row |
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Cambridgeshire |
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Huntingdonshire |
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ST NEOTS |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 518400, 260170 (Easting, Northing)
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archaeol7-282544 |
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Archaeological Solutions Report No. 5228 |
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Created Date: |
17 Jun 2019 |