Podbury, L. and Haygreen, J. (2019). 70 Whitecroft Road, Meldreth, Cambridgeshire. Hertford: Archaeological Solutions Ltd. https://doi.org/10.5284/1076619. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 70 Whitecroft Road, Meldreth, Cambridgeshire
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Series:		 Archaeological Solutions Ltd unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 In May 2019 Archaeological Solutions carried out an archaeological evaluation on land at 70 Whitecroft Road, Meldreth, (NGR TL 3732 4586; Figs. 1-2). The evaluation was undertaken to provide for the initial requirements of a planning condition attached to planning approval for the proposed erection of 9 dwellings. A Neolithic polished flint axe is recorded c.600m to the north, and a scatter of flint debitage flakes further to the north (CHER 03426 and 03136a). Segments of medieval and post-medieval field boundaries have been recorded during archaeological investigations within c.500-700m east and south of the site (CHER MCB23524 7 MCB25637). The trial trench evaluation recorded post-medieval furrows that correspond with the alignment of historic field boundaries, and residual sherds of medieval pottery in the subsoil. The principal archaeological feature present was a large hollow which contained flint and pottery of an early Neolithic date. The hollow contained multiple silty grey fills which appear to represent the accumulation of material through alluvial action; a hypothesis supported by the molluscan evidence which suggests the hollow was water-filled and well-vegetated. Artefactual evidence contained in the silty fills comprise non-diagnostic body sherds of pottery, struck flint blade cores and flint debitage that appear consistent with a date in the early Neolithic period. The presence of Neolithic activity in the local landscape has been previously suggested by scatters of debitage flakes and a polished axe recovered as surface finds in the local vicinity (CHER 03426 and 03136a). The hollow represents prehistoric activity, probably seasonal or episodic, that utilised a water-filled hollow as a resource or landscape marker. Such a pattern of ephemeral settlement and settlement mobility, possibly through seasonal transhumance, is consistent with the pattern evident in much of southern Cambridgeshire (Pollard 2000, 7).
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Author:		 L Podbury
J Haygreen
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Publisher:		 Archaeological Solutions Ltd
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2019
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Site: Land at 70 Whitecroft Road
County: Cambridgeshire
District: South Cambridgeshire
Parish: MELDRETH
Country: England
Grid Reference: 537320, 245860 (Easting, Northing)
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EARLY NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) CORE (Object England)
EARLY NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
EARLY NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) HOLLOW (Monument Type England)
EARLY NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) RIDGE AND FURROW (Monument Type England)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
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OASIS Id: archaeol7-358587
OBIB: 5845
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Created Date:		 30 Apr 2020