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This archaeological desk based assessment was commissioned by Hannah Reed on behalf of the University of Cambridge to assess the potential impact of a proposed development area on the site of the Judge Business School at Trumpington Street, Cambridge (TL 449 579). The proposed development area (PDA) is situated upon the southern approach to the Medieval town of Cambridge, and lies within an area of known pre-Conquest Saxon activity. Documentary sources are contradictory with regards to the location of Medieval buildings, but the PDA is known to lie either within or in proximity to a number of lay and ecclesiastic institutions. Previous investigations within a study area of 250m radius of the PDA illustrate continuous occupation from at least the 13th century to the present. 16th to 18th century tenancies with small-scale industrial activities fronted Trumpington Street before its widening in 1789. Addenbrooke�s Hospital was opened within the PDA in 1766, and underwent numerous modifications before its closure and relocation in the 1980s. Human remains have been identified during a number of works within the PDA. These relate to burial rights possessed by the Addenbrooke�s Hospital in the late 18th century, a leper hospital or asylum of the 14th and 15th century, and a chapel from at least the 13th century. The PDA is situated within an area of local, regional and national significance.

An archaeological evaluation was undertaken at Chapel End, Sawtry. The Proposed Development Area (PDA) centred on TL 1737 8373 is located immediately west of the A1 (M) which occupies the route of Roman Ermine Street, and south of the scheduled remains of a shrunken medieval village (SAM 172). A total of 15 trenches (449m) were machine excavated across the PDA. The trenches revealed evidence of Early Iron Age activity and early medieval features as well as later 19th-20th century refuse pits and a series of undated agricultural/drainage features. Archaeology was present in all but one trench. A single Early Iron Age pit containing pottery and large deposits of burnt clay was excavated at the southern area of the site. Similar fills associated with a NE-SW aligned ditch and several probable pit features exposed at the northwest corner of the site suggest this prehistoric activity may continue across the area, albeit sporadically. The early medieval features appear to represent the remains of peripheral settlement activity; i.e. ditched enclosures, pits and probable well features, with some later agricultural activity indicated by furrow remnants. Much of this activity was located on the higher clay ground and had subsequently been heavily truncated, however a number of features on the sloping ground were found to be relatively well-preserved. The circular earthworks in the north-westernmost field were found to be modern, superficial features, likely associated with equestrian training whilst the large ditch visible in the northeast field proved to be series of re-cutting drainage features dating to the post-medieval period (c.17th-18th century).

Between the 9th-10th May 2013 the CAU undertook an archaeological trench evaluation within the grounds of Norman Hall, Mill Road, Ickleton. This consisted of 13m of trenching dug across the middle of the proposed development area (PDA) at TL 49607 43956. Up to 1.2m of soil overlay the natural gravel, and within this sequence was found a buried soil containing moderate amounts of worked flint ranging from the Mesolithic/Early Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age/ Iron Age plus a small amount of Iron Age and Medieval pottery. No prehistoric features were identified, though some flint-filled tree-throws were located beneath the buried soil. However, at the north end of the main trench a NE-SW aligned Postmedieval? Boundary ditch was discovered, the base of which truncated an earlier pit/ tree-throw containing Roman pottery.

Between 20th-25th May 2013 the CAU undertook an archaeological trench evaluation at nos. 169-173 High Street, Chesterton following the demolition of the public house and a number of associated buildings. This consisted of 57.5m of trenching dug across the proposed development area (PDA) the centre of which lay at TL 4645 5999. Medieval archaeology was encountered towards the street frontage of no. 169. Amongst the earliest features was a SW-NE aligned ditch dating to the 12th century which cut an earlier NW-SE ditch, whilst to the rear of this lay a series of c. 12th century rubbish pits which appear to have been infilled by the 14th century. In front, set back some 6-7m from the edge of the present High Street, were a number of clunch wall footings associated with one or more Postmedieval (16th-17th century?) dwellings, the base of these walls cutting a Late Medieval (15th century?) dark occupation horizon with good preservation of environmental evidence. During the later Postmedieval period (18th-19th century) a considerable amount of pitting and rubbish deposition took place to the rear of this plot. Meanwhile a possible early boundary ditch to no. 169/ 171 High Street was identified within the adjacent garden/ car park to the rear of no. 173.

An archaeological trenched evaluation was undertaken by Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) on land at 90-95 Victoria Road, Chelmsford, Essex in advance of the areas redevelopment. The trenches showed the site to be heavily truncated by previous building work, and the only archaeological evidence identified consisted of a probable Victorian plough soil and plough scars.

Cambridge Archaeological Unit undertook a trenched evaluation within the grounds of Westminster College, Cambridge, prior to a proposed development by The Woolf Institute. Within the trenches a significant quantity of Romano-British archaeology was identified including at least three substantial ditches and a small pit. All of the features yielded moderate to high quantities of artefacts including pottery, animal bone and quern stone suggesting nearby settlement activity.

An open-area excavation conducted at the Eastern Gate Hotel site encountered an intensive and long-lived archaeological sequence. In the 6th century AD, a ditch was established and a cruciform brooch and clay loom weight were deposited. Subsequently, the area returned to agricultural usage until - in c. 1200 - five long-lived burgage plots were established. Linear in form, and with a distinctive twist at their head, each of these plots represents the occupation of a former land within the preceding open field. The newly-established properties were situated on the outer fringe of an extra-mural settlement that was founded following the relocation of Barnwell Priory in c. 1112. So rapid and successful was this settlement's growth, by the late 13th century the site comprised part of a substantial suburb - containing around 95 households - which was physically separated from Cambridge by over half-a-mile of open fields. By the early 14th century a sixth plot had been established, which was principally industrial in focus, and the level of activity at the site appears to have reached its zenith. By the 15th century, however, the suburb appears to have entered a period of decline. Although occupation continued throughout the post-medieval period, the settlement was reduced in scale to the size of a village. The former medieval plots were gradually amalgamated into three larger units. Then, following the inclosure of the surrounding fields in 1807, a process of re-suburbanisation commenced. Over the course of less than 40 years the population of Barnwell increased almost 4000% as a large number of buildings were constructed, and the site became incorporated into Cambridge's expanding suburban fringe.

This archaeological desk based assessment was commissioned by Haysom Ward Miller on behalf of Stretham & Wilburton Community Land Trust and Laragh House Developments Ltd in order to assess the potential for archaeology on the of a proposed housing development at Manor Farm, Stretham, Cambridgeshire. The desk based assessment shows that the proposed development area lies within a study area rich in prehistoric and Roman archaeology and on the fringes of a village whose origins stretch back to the early Medieval period. Although within the Proposed Development Area itself there is only a few fragments of early Medieval pottery from the ploughed surface of the field known, there is potential for archaeology, especially of the Prehistoric and Roman periods, based on patterns of known finds within the study area and the favourable topographic and geological conditions within and around the PDA.

An archaeological trenched evaluation was undertaken by Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) on land behind 100 Histon Road, Cambridge in advance of the sites redevelopment. The trenches revealed no archaeological features or deposits dating prior to the Victorian period although several plough scars and modern pits and postholes were present.

This archaeological desk based assessment examines the impact of a proposed development and installation of a bio-digester plant on Iretons Way, southeast of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire (TL 4181 8328). Examination of the archaeological, historical and archival sources reveal the proposed development area (PDA) is located within an historic landscape, with notable scheduled Neolithic and prehistoric monuments located to the southwest and west of the PDA and funerary monuments dating from the Bronze Age situated to the north and east.

Between 2007 and 2010, the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook a series of strip, map and sample exercises at Manor Farm, Old Wolverton, Milton Keynes. During this time, an impressive prehistoric monument complex was uncovered, comprising three Neolithic cursuses and a complete Late Neolithic hengiform. This ceremonial activity is bracketed by earlier in situ Upper Palaeolithic and Late Mesolithic flint scatters found in association with preserved buried soil horizons, and later Bronze Age occupation, consisting of coaxial field system ditches, a partial ring gully, burnt stone pits and isolated cremation deposits. Two Roman trackways and several probable Roman quarry pits and ditches were also revealed. Beneath the alluvial overburden, substantial networks of braided palaeochannel systems had carved the gravel terraces into 'islands', across which the prehistoric activity was located. The Roman features were cut from within the alluvial overburden, whilst post-Medieval trackways were recorded in the uppermost alluvial and topsoil layers.

Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook a trenched evaluation on farmland to the north of Double Bank Lane, Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, in advance of the proposed construction of a solar farm. The evaluation identified limited archaeological remains which included a probable post-medieval ditch and two modern postholes.