Jonathan Tabor. and Evans, C. (2010). The Over Narrows Archaeological Investigations in Hanson's Needingworth Quarry: The O'Connell Ridge (Part III 2008); The Low Ground Barrow Cemetery (Pt. IV 2008). Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeological Unit. https://doi.org/10.5284/1113917. Cite this using datacite

Title The title of the publication or report Title:	The Over Narrows Archaeological Investigations in Hanson's Needingworth Quarry: The O'Connell Ridge (Part III 2008); The Low Ground Barrow Cemetery (Pt. IV 2008)
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Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report Abstract:	A c.6ha open-area excavation across the O'Connell Ridge occurred (part of the Over Narrows investigations) within Needingworth Quarry, Cambridgeshire, part of a wider programme of investigations. In addition to the O'Connell Ridge, fieldwork involved excavations along a c. 600m-length the ridge north of a palaeochannel and the five 'Low Grounds' Bronze Age barrows and Beaker cemetery clustered along the southern side of the O'Connell Ridge. Unlike adjacent excavations, the O'Connell Ridge lacked buried soil-derived assemblages: c. 470 worked flints, 510 pottery sherds and c. 1,000 animal bones. With slight evidence of earlier Neolithic activity, the site's sequence was initiated in the later Neolithic, and its early occupation saw Grooved Ware and Beaker pit clusters, as well as dispersed Collared Urn pits. No structures were distinguished with certainty, although a possible roundhouse was identified. Relatively little Deverel-Rimbury pottery was recovered, the site's main phase occurred during the MBA. This raises the possibility of aceramic occupation - loss through funerary use? At the western end of the ridge was found a possible post-built longhouse within an enclosure. Three crouched inhumations lay within the area of the site's settlement swathe; and probablt contemporary with the primary Beaker-associated inhumations of the adjacent barrows. The barrows, two pond and three round barrows, contained a total of 44 inhumations and cremations.
Author The authors of this publication or report Author:	R Newman
Publisher The publisher of the publication or report Publisher:	Cambridge Archaeological Unit
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Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published Year of Publication:	2010
Locations Any locations covered by the publication or report. This is not the place the book or report was published. Locations:	County: Cambridgeshire District: South Cambridgeshire Country: England Parish: Over Grid Reference: 537998, 273999 (Easting, Northing)
Subjects / Periods Subjects / Periods associated with this record. Subjects / Periods:	EARLY BRONZE AGE BARROW (Tag) ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England) EXCAVATION (Event) CEMETERY (Monument Type England) EARLY BRONZE AGE CEMETERY (Tag) LONGHOUSE (Monument Type England) NEOLITHIC ENCLOSURE (Tag) MIDDLE BRONZE AGE CREMATION (Tag) BRONZE AGE CREMATION (Tag) CREMATION (Object England) MIDDLE BRONZE AGE BARROW (Tag) CREMATION (Monument Type England) BARROW (Monument Type England) NEOLITHIC LONGHOUSE (Tag) EARLY BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)
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