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Between the 16th August and 10th September, a team from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook a series of archaeological investigations on the Rickett Field, Granta Park, Cambridge (TL 527 485). The programme of works included field walking, test pitting and trial trenching, conducted on behalf of Granta Park Limited in advance of the proposed extension to the Granta Park complex. The investigations were carried out in accordance with a specification of work and were monitored by the County Archaeological Office (CAO) of Cambridge County Council.

On the 16th and 17th September 2004 the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook an archaeological evaluation at PA Consulting, Cambridge Technology Centre, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire (TL 380398), on behalf of Millbridge Project Management, in advance of the proposed development of a power plant. The evaluation was carried out in accordance with a specification of works and was monitored by the County Archaeological Office (CAO) of Cambridgeshire County Council.

Between the 19 July and 9l August 2004 the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook an archaeological evaluation on land adjacent to St. Bartholomew's Priory, Sudbury, Suffolk (TL 869428), on behalf of Ashwell Developments Ltd in advance of the proposed development of the land for housing. The evaluation was carried out in accordance with a specification of works and was monitored by the County Archaeological Office (CAO) of Suffolk County Council.

An archaeological evaluation was undertaken on the site of the Old Bakery, Ayscough Avenue, Spalding (AAS04) ahead of redevelopment. Eleven trenches were excavated to asses the potential for any archaeological evidence. The trenches revealed traces of the more recent industrial activities along with evidence that the environs would have been wet and un-inhabitable until recent times.

An archaeological test pit survey was undertaken on behalf of Scott Wilson for MITIE Scotgate at the site of a former Sewage Treatment Works in Fengate, Peterborough (NGR: 520200 298300). A total of six test pits were excavated with each showing a significant amount of made ground overlying alluvial clays. The presence of terrace river gravels to the south of the site was confirmed together with a palaeochannel.

An archaeological evaluation was undertaken on behalf of Hanson Aggregates at their Earith Quarry, Somersham (NGR 538440 277170). The evaluation was commissioned prior to the extension of the current Quarry workings and follows on from a series of desktop investigations. Thirty-six trenches were excavated totalling 2322m and were targeted on specific cropmarks and areas of negative results. Several trenches were also cut across the area of Rhee Lake to investigate the potential wetland deposits. The evaluation produced evidence for continued activity dating back to the Neolithic. The area to the north of Rhee Lake and abutting the Langdale Hale complex saw a continuation of the Romano-British activity along with an earlier Iron Age predecessor. The area to the south of Rhee Lake provided evidence of Neolithic activity in the form of a pit. The Bronze Age was evidenced by a number of large ditches and several curvilinear gullies and posthole clusters within a �settlement� core area and field system ditches coming away from this. To the southwest the Iron Age was recorded as a large ditch associated with a cropmark plot representing a series of enclosures. The area known as Rhee Lake through the centre of the development area produced evidence for a palaeochannel, and a later system of channels or streams cutting through successive peat inundations.

This archaeological desk top assessment was requested by Camstead Ltd to assess the likely impact of development of Purbeck House (TL459565, covering an area of 1840m2. Evaluation of the archaeological, historical, aerial and cartographic evidence shows the site to be situated in an area of low archaeological potential that has undergone significant urban development and change since the construction of the Cambridge to London mainline railway line in 1845. Nonetheless, pockets of surviving archaeology have been found in the study area and adjacent to Purbeck House.

Between the 5th-22nd October, a team from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) undertook a field evaluation by trial trenching on land adjacent to The Bell Language School, Cambridge (TL 468 549). The programme of works was conducted on behalf of the Bell Educational Trust in advance of a planning application. The investigations were carried out in accordance with a specification of work and were monitored by the County Archaeological Office (CAO) of Cambridge County Council.

The watching brief observed layers that might relate to the Early Medieval surfaces adjacent to King's Childers Lane. Other structures noted included part of a 19th century scullery and clunch foundation walling that could date from the Early Medieval period but could not be confirmed.

During September of 2004 an archaeological investigation was undertaken on behalf of Gallahers Ltd within the southern portion of Field H and a series of enclosures forming Field Q. The excavation of twenty-three trenches produced evidence for human activity spanning the Late Bronze Age/Iron Age through to the Saxo-Norman period. Late Bronze Age/Iron Age settlement was recorded in a series of trenches spanning Fields H and Q in the form of gullies and postholes and a large pit containing preserved organics. On an area of high ground Saxon settlement was envisioned in the form of a possible grubenhaus and associated linears, possibly relating to earlier settlement activity recorded to the west at Home Farm. Fronting onto the present course of the B1050 Saxo-Norman ditches were noted within two trenches in Field Q representing possible evidence for the early layout of the village of Longstanton.

Throughout March 2004 a �strip, map and sample� excavation was undertaken at Mayton Wood, Buxton With Lammas, Norfolk (NGR: 624170 32144). A total of five linear features were recorded, four of which were related to each other and formed a northwest southeast route way. From one of these linears fragments of a Samian bowl were recovered suggesting a Romano British date for these features. Also recorded were twenty-seven shallow pits which contained significant amounts of charcoal and evidence of burning in-situ suggesting they may have been the remnants of charcoal burning pits. A radiocarbon date for these pits suggests an Anglo-Saxon date.

This report details the results of the excavation of Site 2, a l ha. area located either side of a concrete roadway known as Fen Drove, near Over village, Cambridgeshire. The investigation took place over a three month-long period in the summer of 1999. It represents one part of an extensive on-going project investigating the prehistoric occupation of the alluviated landscape around the junction of the fen-edge and River Great Ouse as contained within the area of Hanson's Needingworth/Over quarry. The results of this investigation can be added to an increasing body of work that involves excavations on both sides of the river at Barleycroft Farm and within the Over Lowlands. The site was situated along the northern edge of Chain Bridge Terrace near the beginning of Papworth Ridge, a sand and gravel peninsula that once extended north-eastwards out into the fen that occupied the ground between the dry-lands of Over/Willingham and Haddenham. The main components of Site 2 were a cluster of Late Neolithic, Grooved Ware pits and the corner of a Middle Bronze Age fieldsystem. The pit cluster occupied a small c. 0.40m high knoll or rise located to the edge of the terrace (up to c. 1.60m OD, the buried groundsurface otherwise lying at c. 1.00-1.20m OD), which later became enclosed by the north-easternmost extent of a fieldsystem. The story of the knoll�s occupation and subsequent containment is the story of the site, and as this knoll represents one of many 'islands' of activity that made up Over's prehistoric landscape it is also part of the history of that landscape. This report in particular looks at how one space in that landscape was at one time a place of temporary settlement and at another permanently enclosed. Part of telling this history involves an understanding of the processes behind the artefact densities located within the buried soil horizon that sealed the pits and ditches that constituted these different phases of occupation.