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Cambridge Archaeological Unit undertook two open-area excavations at Milton Landfill in advance of its expansion. The two phases identified significant evidence for Middle Iron Age activity which was overlain by a large area of Romano-British agricultural planting beds. An extensive area of intercutting probable Romano-British quarry pits was also identified. Both phases of excavation were overlain by post-medieval furrows and ditches.

Excavation report from a knowledge transfer grant funded project which encouraged members of the public to experience paleo-environmentalism. Includes borehole survey.

Excavation of the area following earlier evaluation revealed unexpectedly high surface finds following stripping and weathering of the site, with a large quantity of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery also found in excess of what was anticipated. Several pit features were also found in addition to a buried soil. Several test pits were also excavated as part of the continuing sampling strategy of the buried soils found on the sand ridges located here that were intensively occupied or used during prehistory (see also entries for the Godwin and O'Connell Ridges that are part of this series of reports).

An archaeological investigation was undertaken at the Darlow's Depot site at Fengate, Peterborough (NGR TL 21188 98526) in advance of the construction of local amenities. The evaluation was undertaken in two phases with 6 trenches excavated, with a total of 12 features identified during investigations in only three trenches. Features included postholes, pits and a gulley, with PDR pottery recovered from a pit.

An Archaeological evaluation was carried out at 59 Histon Road, Cambridge between 21st April and 6th June 2011. One linear feature was found with an east-west orientation which was seen in two of the three trenches opened. This small ditch was dated to the late Medieval period on the basis of recovered pottery. This feature was potentially a boundary marker for a property plot running back off Histon Road.

A lift-pit was excavated within the cellar of the hall of Pembroke College, Cambridge, on the 3rd of August 2011. This measured 1.55m by 0.88m in extent. Within the lift-pit, a series of four 19th to 20th century floor surfaces were identified. The earliest of these surfaces consisted of a layer of large limestone flags, which had subsequently been overlain by two succeeding layers of concrete. The sequence was finally capped by a layer of modern quarry tiles. No evidence of the original, 14th century hall - which was demolished and replaced with the present standing structure in 1875-77 - was uncovered. Neither was any evidence of pre-collegiate, domestic occupation at the site identified. It therefore appears that the entire pre-19th century archaeological sequence was destroyed when the hall was rebuilt.

An archaeological evaluation consisting of twenty trenches covering 277.8m2 was conducted by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit on the site of the proposed development of the former Old Fire Station, former Household Waste Disposal Site, Car Park and Recreation Ground, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire in July 2011. The earliest features encountered were Saxo-Norman with some form of activity probably beginning in the 12th century AD and continuing until around the 14th century. There was possibly a roadside ditch along Huntingdon Street, and in close proximity to this were postholes relating to a fence or building, a pit or well and various other features. These remains appear to represent a short-lived expansion of St. Neots, with domestic occupation fronting onto Huntingdon Street. Further to the east there was also evidence of contemporary sand/gravel quarrying and strip-agriculture. Activity apart from strip-agriculture appears to have ceased during the 14th-15th centuries, and activity only resumed in the 18th-19th centuries.

This report provides assessment of results from archaeological monitoring along a 1.4km route of a 600mm sewage pipeline in the coastal village of Latchingdon, Essex. The project was commissioned by Anglia Water and was carried out between January and June 2011. Monitoring of topsoil stripping over 15m easement, and a 1m-wide trench up to 5m in depth is described, incorporating a route from The Street (TL 8831 0047) to the Sewage Works (TL 8772 0116). A grouping of three small oval pits was found to contain Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age pottery and a single rim sherd of briquetage vessel. A nearby cluster of two pits and a gulley containing early Roman pottery was also identified. Two ditches dating to the 14th or 15th centuries were also identified along with two other nearby undated ditches possibly forming a co-axial pattern beneath the current village residence. Surface remains of a 19th century building were also noted.

Between 17th-18th March 2011 the Cambridge Archaeological Unit carried out an archaeological evaluation (c.120m of trenching) within 0.5 ha of garden on the east side of West Lodge Lane, Sutton. The garden lies within a hollow on the slope overlooking South Fen on the south side of Sutton village. The northernmost trench commenced higher up the slope revealed clay geology close to the surface with a thin covering of gravel which thickened towards the base where evidence for Postmedieval (probably mid- 19th century) quarrying and subsequent backfill was apparent. Towards the upper end of this trench an E-W linear feature (possibly a ditch or earlier quarrying feature) was found from which probable 16th-17th century pottery was recovered. All of the remaining five trenches were dug across the bottom and sides of the hollow; these revealed evidence for nineteenth century quarrying in the shape of shallow backfilled scoops, and in places islands of unexcavated gravel forming the higher ground in between. A scatter of burnt limestone pebbles across the site may relate to evidence for former lime burning, perhaps using the ubiquitous limestone present as cobbles and pebbles within the gravel. The level of truncation caused by quarrying, planting and the burial of domestic rubbish would probably have removed any traces of earlier archaeology had this been present.

An archaeological excavation was undertaken by Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) in advance of mineral extraction and irrigation reservoir extension at North Fen, Sutton Gault, Cambridgeshire (centred on TL 4045 8132). The excavation area comprised a 4.47ha site to the north of Long North Fen Drove, immediately to the south of the existing irrigation reservoir/quarry (Figure 1). The work was carried out between July and November 2010. The site is located in the Cambridgeshire Fens and is situated on what is effectively a gravel 'island', surrounded by former fen. Excavations revealed a good level of preservation with complete buried soil horizons surviving across large parts of the site. Test pit sampling of the buried soil revealed the presence of five dense artefact scatters (buried soil 'sites') dating to the Late Mesolithic, Early Neolithic, Late Neolithic and Beaker periods. Of the archaeological features encountered, seven Early Neolithic pit clusters which produced rich assemblages of worked flint and Mildenhall pottery are perhaps of most significance. Other excavated features include a number of Early Bronze Age 'watering holes' and two - probably Collared Urn associated - ring ditches.

The Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook the archaeological monitoring of the preparatory works for the installation of a new gas pipeline at St Johns Church, Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire. During the monitoring no archaeological features or structures were encountered.

The Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook the archaeological monitoring of the installation of a main water pipeline through Burghley Park, Stamford by Anglia Water and its Agents between the 14th September 2009 and 8th October 2009. The pipeline commenced at the southern corner of Burghley Park estate and traversed a landscape of arable farmland and managed parkland, finishing near the Burghley Park Golf Clubhouse adjacent to the Old Great North Road. For part of the route the pipeline followed the course of Ermine Street a major Roman road connecting London (Londinium) to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) and York (Eboracum). No significant archaeological remains were noted during the monitoring.