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Land at Norwood, Peterborough an Archaeological Evaluation |
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Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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| Abstract: |
The evaluation fieldwork comprised the excavation of 115 trenches each measuring 50m by 1.8m wide (Fig. 2). With the approval of PCCAS, Trench 92 remained unexcavated owing to dense vegetation.
The trenches were located to provide a representative sample of the site covering an area totalling 3% of the proposed development. A further 2% of trenching was held in contingency, of which an area measuring 8m by 6m was opened around features within Trench 24 at the request of PCCAS.
Trenches were set out on OS National Grid co-ordinates using Leica. Overburden was stripped from the trenches by a mechanical excavator fitted with a toothless grading bucket. All machining was conducted under archaeological supervision to the top of the natural substrate, which was the level at which archaeological features were first encountered.
Archaeological features/deposits were investigated, planned and recorded in accordance with CA Technical Manual 1: Fieldwork Recording Manual.
Deposits were assessed for their palaeoenvironmental potential, and samples were taken in accordance with CA Technical Manual 2: The Taking and Processing of Environmental and Other Samples from Archaeological Sites.
Artefacts were processed in accordance with CA Technical Manual 3: Treatment of Finds Immediately after Excavation.
CA will make arrangements with Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery for the deposition of the project archive and, subject to agreement with the legal landowner(s), the artefact collection. The archives will be prepared and deposited in accordance with Standard and guidance for the creation, compilation, transfer and deposition of archaeological archives (CIfA 2014; updated October 2020).
A summary of information from this project, as set out in Appendix D, will be entered onto the OASIS online database of archaeological projects in Britain. In September and October 2021, Cotswold Archaeology carried out an
archaeological evaluation of land at Norwood, Peterborough,
Cambridgeshire, at the request of Deloitte LLP. A total of 115 trenches,
each measuring 50m long by 2m wide, were excavated across the 38.3ha site which forms part of a larger allocation site identified for residential development.
The need for archaeological trial trenching of the Site was identified based on its location adjacent to a stretch of the Car Dyke Roman Canal Scheduled Monument, which forms the northern site boundary. The southernmost trenching area is also located in close proximity to an area of Bronze Age settlement activity which was identified in the adjacent field as part of a previous programme of evaluation relating to a separate part of the overall allocation site (OA 2017).
Despite the level of archaeological potential, the majority of the excavated trenches contained no features of any type or period. This may be in part due to the high levels of plough truncation observed across all parts of the trenching areas, with only a thin layer of topsoil sealing the natural clay and resulting moderate to high levels of plough scarring evident in most of the trenches.
A large Early/Middle Iron Age pit and the unstratified remains of a
fragmented likely Early Iron Age vessel provided limited evidence for early activity within the Site, together with a small cluster of Roman features in the form of a small ditch and associated pit and posthole. Post-medieval activity was also encountered in several trenches, notably including the remains of a brick clamp kiln, and several former field boundaries identified through comparative analysis of feature alignments against the 1st Edition OS map (1886). Two small ditches and a small pit could not be conclusively assigned to any period and remained undated. |
| Author: |
Ralph Brown
Anna Wolf
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| Publisher: |
Cotswold Archaeology
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| Year of Publication: |
2021
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| Locations: |
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Cambridgeshire |
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Peterborough, unparished area |
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England |
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Peterborough |
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Grid Reference: 520526, 302881 (Easting, Northing)
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EVALUATION
(Event)
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DITCH
(Monument Type England)
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UNCERTAIN DITCH
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DITCH
(Monument Type England)
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ROMAN DITCH
(Tag)
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DITCH
(Monument Type England)
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MEDIEVAL DITCH
(Tag)
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POST HOLE
(Monument Type England)
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ROMAN POST HOLE
(Tag)
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PIT
(Monument Type England)
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IRON AGE PIT
(Tag)
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CLAMP KILN
(Monument Type England)
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POST MEDIEVAL CLAMP KILN
(Tag)
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IRON AGE
(Historic England Periods)
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ROMAN
(Historic England Periods)
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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POST MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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UNCERTAIN
(Historic England Periods)
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cotswold2-508402 |
| OBIB: |
Cotswold Archaeology 2021 Land at Norwood, Peterborough: Archaeological Evaluation CA typescript report |
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This report was uploaded to the OASIS system by the named Publisher. The report has been transferred into the ADS Library for public access and to facilitate future research.
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12 Oct 2022 |
