Billington, L. and Firth, D. (2020). Land East of the New Bedford River, Bridge Road, Mepal, Plot 1. Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire: Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge).

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Title:		 Land East of the New Bedford River, Bridge Road, Mepal, Plot 1
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Series:		 Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge) unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Between the 18th of June and the 5th of July 2019, Oxford Archaeology East carried out an excavation on a small parcel of land on the northern edge of the village of Mepal, Cambridgeshire (TL 4414 81358). The excavation exposed a series of enclosure ditches and a relatively large number of small pits associated with Late Iron Age/Early Roman pottery and representing activity dating almost exclusively to the mid-1st century AD. These features produced relatively modest finds assemblages, dominated by pottery, with small quantities of animal bone and fired clay. Although most of the pottery was highly fragmented and abraded, a few features produced relatively coherent and substantial assemblages which appear to reflect the deliberate deposition of material associated with domestic activity. Although the small scale of the excavation has rendered interpretation of the site difficult, it seems likely that it lay within or adjacent to an area of settlement, which, based on the character of the finds, seems likely to have been a relatively low status rural farmstead. Settlement of this date - in the decades either side of the Roman conquest - is well-attested elsewhere on the Isle of Ely, although in this local context the Bridge Road excavations are somewhat unusual for not producing evidence of earlier, Middle/Late Iron Age, activity, or for continued occupation into the 2nd century AD.
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Author:		 L Billington
D Firth
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Publisher:		 Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge)
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2020
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Site: Bridge Road
County: Cambridgeshire
District: East Cambridgeshire
Parish: MEPAL
Country: England
Grid Reference: 544146, 281358 (Easting, Northing)
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IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) TOBACCO PIPE (Object England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) POST HOLE (Monument Type England)
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OASIS Id: oxfordar3-359077
OBIB: OAE report 2356
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URI: https://library.thehumanjourney.net/5702/
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Created Date:		 22 Oct 2020