Durobrivae

A new journal devoted to Nene Valley archaeology is introduced by an outline of the history of research in this palimpsest-like settlement area, now being developed for Greater Peterborough. Short illustrated interim reports follow on the Longthorpe Scheduled Area; the prehistoric and RB remains at Lynch Farm; the Castor nunnery of St Kyneburgha (c 655-870); the medieval house-sequence in Potter's Oven Field, Castor; the Neolithic ?house at Fengate; the EBA dagger-burial at Perio; the 4th-century farm tools from Lynch Farm; and the hunt-cup from Bedford Purlieus.

Reports evidence for the early courses of the River Nene; the final season at Fengate, where a Bronze Age field bank survived well under unusually thick overburden, where evidence of flooding suggests a reason for the abandonment of such a well-managed site, and where LBA-EIA transitional material turned up together with an unploughed Iron Age house floor; discussion of Group VI material found as erratics; a pit alignment curving between two ring-ditches; progress on the Cambridgeshire sites and monuments record and related excavations; a new plan of the town of Durobrivae from aerial photographs; a Roman anvil; a 1st century Belgic settlement; and the loss since 1969 of many buildings of historical interest.