Collins, C. (2019). Archaeological Test Pit Excavations in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, 2013 - 2017. University of Cambridge: Access Cambridge Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1078354. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Archaeological Test Pit Excavations in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, 2013 - 2017
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Abstract:		 Over the five years from 2013 to 2017, 33 1m2 archaeological test pits were excavated in a scatter across the current area of the village of Stapleford in South Cambridgeshire. For the first year the project was included in the Higher Education Field Academy (HEFA) programme run by Access Cambridge Archaeology (ACA) out of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. For reasons of funding constraints, it was then continued as a community dig for the following four years, organised by Stapleford History Society but using the ACA methodology for digging, recording and reporting so as to maintain consistency and comparability. The project has added confirmation and clarification to the information previously available from the Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (CHER) and historical sources. Evidence was found of human activity in the village area from the Mesolithic onwards. In the prehistoric and Romano-British periods the level of activity identified was not such as to suggest that the area had become a centre of regular settlement, though the land was clearly in active use by populations whose main bases were perhaps nearby. The first sign of a settlement dates to the Late Anglo-Saxon period, in a location somewhat to the south of the church. Consolidation into a village can first be seen in the period following the Norman Conquest. Slow expansion was checked by the Black Death, though not dramatically. Over the centuries the preferred locations for settlement shifted a little across the current village area, but Stapleford seems to have remained a rather scattered village, with houses and paddocks strung out along an oval of roads that still give the village its underlying structure. Faster expansion followed the opening of a railway connection in 1845, though much of the centre of the oval, which contained a large common before enclosure in 1812, remained as fiel
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Author:		 C Collins
The Stapleford History Society
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Publisher:		 Access Cambridge 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:		 2019
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Site: Stapleford Big Dig
County: Cambridgeshire
District: South Cambridgeshire
Parish: STAPLEFORD
Country: England
Grid Reference: 547098, 252114 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) BURNT STONE (Find)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) COIN (Object England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) FLAKE (Object England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) WHETSTONE (Object England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) WALL (BRICK) (Monus)
TEST PIT (Event)
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OASIS Id: accessca1-365749
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Note:		 A4, comb bound grey report, 128 pages to be printed double sided
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Created Date:		 12 Jun 2020