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Excavations at the Cambridge and County Folk Museum between October and December 2002 revealed a sequence of Roman to Post-medieval activity. The most intense periods of activity at the site were represented by a Roman timber building and neonate burial, a Late Saxon sunken featured building and pitting and a 16th century path and associated features.

Two trenches at Cambridge University Botanic Garden failed to reveal any significant archaeological deposits. The only features encountered were of 19th century date and related to horticulture.

In October 2002 the Cambridge Archaeological Unit conducted a watching brief on behalf of Hanson Aggregates along a proposed conveyer belt route within Hanson's Earith quarry. The conveyor route formed a 395m long SSW-running straight line, crossing the low-lying former fen embayment known as Rhee Lake and areas of higher ground on either side. The route crossed areas of previously plotted cropmarks. The northwest end of the route is adjacent to the area of the 1999 excavations at Site V, which uncovered later Bronze Age settlement features, along with ditches from a Romano-British field system associated with the substantial lst-4th century settlement at Langdale Hale (Site VI) to the east. A 2.2m-wide trench along the whole 395m length of the proposed conveyer strip was monitored to record any archaeology.

Evaluation trenches excavated within the grounds of Wilderspin Garage (formerly Manor Farm), Fen Drayton, revealed evidence for a Roman field system on the same alignment to those known from cropmarks. Two possible farmyard ponds were excavated one of which was Medieval, the other was undated. Both yielded evidence for excellent organic preservation.

The Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) carried out an archaeological evaluation in anticipation of an Elective Care Facility at Addenbrooke's Hospital between 8th and 12th September 2003. The investigation followed a desk-top study and project specification, in accordance with, and approved by, Andrew Thomas of Cambridgeshire County Council Development Control. The work was commissioned by Addenbrooke's NHS Trust in order to define the presence/absence, and to characterise the nature, of archaeological remains within the development site, which covers an area of c. 2 ha. The site is located in the southern hinterland of Cambridge, centred on TL 464 550.

Three test pits in the grounds of New Hall at 67 Storey's Way showed that the area had suffered from deep post-Medieval truncation, with no archaeological remains surviving. The evidence of this and previous investigations indicates that while archaeological deposits survive within the parts of the college grounds corresponding with the former gardens of The Orchard, the area immediately outside the eastern and southern boundary of this estate has been extensively truncated by late 19th century quarrying.

Cambridge Archaeological Unit has been appointed to carry out an archaeological desk-based assessment of a site on the NW edge of Chelmsford as part of a review of development influences. The report will consider the available evidence (sources are detailed below) and seek to set that evidence in a wider context as well as to consider direct implications for the site area itself. The evidence is also considered in the context of the relevant local and national legislation and guidelines for archaeology in planning.

The excavation of a later Roman inhumation cemetery identified in the basements of 35-37 Jesus Lane is reported. A total of 32 skeletons were found; six were accompanied by grave goods and three decapitated burials were identified. The preservation of the skeletal material was generally excellent and analysis indicates a population of predominantly mature men and women exhibiting pathologies associated with heavy work and old age. Residual pottery suggests that extra-mural settlement and possibly industry existed in this area in the mid-late 2nd and 3rd centuries, prior to the establishment of the cemetery.

Planning permission is to be sought for redevelopment on the Rank Hovis site, Hills Road, Cambridge (site centred NGR TL46052 57141), totalling about 2.17ha in area. Given that the site lies in an area of archaeological potential, further information is required prior to determination of any mitigation strategy. Mott MacDonald have appointed the Cambridge Archaeological Unit to carry out a desktop assessment to collate and assess information relating to the sites' archaeological potential.

This report has been commissioned by Hanson Aggregates Ltd. in advance of the proposed extension of Earith Quarry. This proposed extension lies within an area together covered by two earlier desktop studies. The present report collates the findings of these studies, along with evidence from more recent investigations, to present all the available information concerning the known and potential archaeological remains within the proposed quarry extension.

Archaeological desk based assessment and test pit survey were undertaken by Cambridge Archaeological Unit on land adjacent to Storey�s Bar Road, Fengate on behalf of Global Olivine UK Ltd. In October 2003. The work was the first of two phases of investigation designed to assess the archaeological potential of the site in advance of the construction of a waste-to-energy plant. The proposed development area (PDA) lay 600m north west of the nationally important Bronze Age site of Flag Fen and evidence of prehistoric and Roman activity was known of within the immediate vicinity; it was clearly of high archaeological potential. This report brought together the results of extensive archaeological investigation in the Flag Fen embayment and aimed to establish the location of the prehistoric and Roman fen edge and any known archaeological features in the immediate vicinity that might extend within the site. The findings indicate that the land within the PDA was low lying (between 0.04�0.07m OD) and would have stood in an increasingly wet, fen environment during the later prehistoric and Roman periods; no trace of the mainland gravel terrace was uncovered in the test pits. Excavations at Fengate Power Station to the south showed that the Flag Fen Bronze Age wooden post alignment passed 100m to the south of the site, however cropmark evidence suggested that the Roman Fen Causeway probably ran into its southern most part. Prehistoric wetland archaeology or features relating to the Roman Fen Causeway could therefore be revealed within the PDA.

An archaeological evaluation in anticipation of the expansion of the London Road Cemetery, Thetford, Norfolk, was undertaken by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit in September 2003. This showed that the site had been extensively used for the extraction of sand and chalk during the eleventh and twelfth centuries AD. There were also a number of ditches, pits, gullies and slots, concentrated in the northern part of the site and those containing datable material were also dated to the eleventh and twelfth centuries AD. One feature on the eastern side of the site (gully [8] in Trench D) contained a large quantity of pottery and slag indicating both domestic and industrial activity in the immediate vicinity, but there was no evidence of extensive occupation on this site.