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This heritage statement examines the impact on the scheduled Neolithic enclosures at Horseley Fen (1009993) of a proposed extension of the bio-digester plant on Ireton's Way, southeast of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire (TL 4181 8328). Three potential impacts on the scheduled monument are identified: its visual setting, flooding or a spill from the proposed plant extension. The analysis concludes that the risks to the visual setting of the monument are low, while the risk of flooding or spills from the proposed plant are very low.

This archaeological desk based assessment examines the impact of a proposed development south of Ireton's Way, southeast of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire (TL 417 834). Examination of the archaeological, historical and archival sources reveal the proposed development area (PDA) is located within an historic landscape, with 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.

Ahead of further expansion of the Lancaster Way Business Park, archaeological excavation of an area to the south of the existing facility exposed traces of an Iron Age–Roman settlement. The site formed an additional settlement area within the extensive Middle Iron Age–Roman multi-foci complex revealed by a series of excavations carried out at Lancaster Way over the last decade. The archaeology in the 2019 area comprised three distinct phases, spanning a period from the later Iron Age until at least the 2nd century AD. The initial later Iron Age–Early Roman phase comprised a curvilinear ditch/enclosure system defining an area of settlement. A single four-post structure was a part of this broader phase as well an inhumation, which had been placed/thrown face down into a boundary ditch. A re-modelling of the settlement layout was associated with later 1st–2nd century AD pottery. Although no structural features were assigned to this phase, an abundance of wall plaster (32kg), some of which was painted, provided a trace of the site's 'absent' architecture. The subsequent and final phase comprised a rectilinear arrangement of diminutive ditches defining a field system. One of the deeper ditches on site provided conditions suitable for the preservation of waterlogged plant remains and pollen. This evidence showed the settlement was situated amongst open pasture with scattered scrubland/hedgerow and woodland. The abundance of wood fragments and seeds including bramble, elder and ivy amongst the plant assemblage, implies that overgrown scrubland or a hedgerow grew in the immediate vicinity of the boundary ditch.

Archaeological excavations were carried out by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit on land south of High Ditch Road, as part of the Marleigh (Wing) residential development. The works covered an area of 3ha and were carried out between December 2018 and April 2019. The excavations revealed evidence for occupation spanning the Neolithic through to the Anglo-Saxon periods as well as evidence for later Medieval and Post-Medieval land use. The Neolithic activity comprised a large pit cluster from which Early Neolithic pottery was recovered. In the Early Bronze Age, a pond barrow was constructed on the edge of a gentle slope as was a possible 'posthole monument', this was succeeded by a large enclosed Middle Bronze Age settlement comprising several roundhouses. A hiatus of occupation occurred until the Late Iron Age- Early Roman period, when a small farmstead was established comprising several enclosures and a large linear boundary ditch, which remained the focus of several phases of subsequent activity during the Roman period. The Anglo-Saxon period represented the final phase of occupation within this area and comprised two sunken featured buildings (SFB) and a small group of pits. One of the SFBs is of note due to the presence of a burning horizon which could represent the remains of a conflagration event. Across the area a number of furrows were excavated demonstrating the agricultural importance this area took in later periods.

This study has been commissioned by King's College, Cambridge, to provide an archaeological overview of the Wilkins Bar and is an updated version of the original study commissioned for Chetwynd Court and its surrounding area (centred on TL 4477 5827). The Proposed Development Area (PDA) is located within the Wilkins Building in the southwestern corner of King's College, between Chetwynd Court and First Court, and is part of a series of buildings that were erected on a piecemeal basis during the 19th and 20th centuries (Figure 1). This study will examine the likelihood of archaeological deposits surviving within the Chetwynd Court PDA, as well as considering the potential impact of the proposed development upon any such remains, as this would relate to the Wilkins Bar redevelopment

The Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) has been commissioned by St John's College, Cambridge, to prepare an archaeological desk-based assessment for land south of Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. The Proposed Development Area (PDA) covers approximately 1.7 hectares. The PDA comprises eight adjoining plots, shown in Figure 2. The purpose of this desk-based assessment is to assess: (a) the archaeological potential of the PDA; (b) the likely impact of previous land use on the survival of any archaeological remains, and (c) the potential for impacts on the surviving archaeological resource. The PDA lies in an area which has seen intensive archaeological investigation. Consequently, archaeological and historical records were consulted within a restricted search area of 1200m x 1200m around the PDA (between TL 4400 5900 in the northeast and TL 4280 5780 in the southwest).

Having run since August of the previous year, February of 2019 saw the completion of the programme's final excavations and the digging of those sites that will be affected by the development's next stage of construction. While the fieldwork at two—Sites I and X—was relatively minor, the Sites VI and VII's investigations were of a much larger scale (Fig. 1). The latter, a Roman villa-estate complex (Site VII), was challenging and, proving spectacular, was a fitting way to conclude a fieldwork programme that, off and on, has continued over 17 years.

The Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) was commissioned by Burmor Construction to undertake a trenched evaluation on land East of Church Street and South of Bicker Road, Donington, Lincolnshire (TF 2092 3601) to assess the archaeological potential of the site prior to a proposed development. The evaluation was carried out between the 5th and 7th July 2021, and identified a series of ditches and pits of 10th to 15th century date. The Development Area was evaluated by three trenches totalling 80m in length (at 2.0m wide) in the first instance, which equated to approximately 5% of the 0.34 hectares site. The evaluation indicated limited disturbance to the archaeological levels by the construction of modern drainage on site, but, overall, the potential for archaeological survival was moderate. The additional trench demonstrated that the creation of the new car park did not impact on the underlying deposits and that within the area of the car park archaeological deposits should still survive. All of the archaeological features encountered were medieval in date, from the 10th to 15th centuries. The following sections outline the results from various components of the evaluation, additional works and monitoring including the results from bucket sampling, metal detecting and the trenches themselves

This archaeological desk-based assessment and deposit model was commissioned by RH Partnership Architects in order to assess the potential impact of proposed development on the site of the Cambridge Jewish Student Centre, Thompson's Lane, Cambridge. Although subject to repeated and prolonged episodes of alluviation during the prehistoric and Saxon periods, in Roman times the PDA was situated on the periphery of a small suburban settlement area and small-scale extramural activities (such as gravel quarrying) may have been undertaken. Subsequently, from around the early 12th century onwards, the site lay within the circuit of the medieval King's Ditch, and was for a time bounded by it. Then, from the 17th to the late 18th centuries, documentary and cartographic sources indicate that the PDA was consistently occupied by domestic properties. The documentary evidence—in combination with the results of the recent local archaeological investigations—indicates that a large number and wide array of archaeological features can be predicted within the PDA, extending up to 3m in depth. Overall, the archaeological potential of the PDA is high and has the potential to contribute towards a greater understanding of the scale and extent of Roman activity associated with the nearby 2nd to 3rd century settlement and further elucidate the date and pattern of medieval and post-medieval occupation associated with this significant, quayside area of the town

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring of geotechnical trial pits and boreholes conducted by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) within Pump Court, Jesus College, Cambridge (Fig. 1). Occurring between the 25th and 27th of March 2019, it adds to the results of an earlier archaeological evaluation in the same area (Newman 2018).The work took place in advance of the redevelopment of the College Kitchens, with the proposed changes including a basement and ground-storey extension on the north side of the Hall, as well as the basementing of a substantial proportion of Pump Court (Fig. 1). It is this latter area that comprises the current Proposed Development Area (PDA; centred on TL 4521 5893). Geotechnical trial pits were manually excavated here and one was excavated in First Court, outside the PDA. A soakaway trial trench was also mechanically excavated 5m north of the PDA. All the trial pits, the soakaway trench and the boreholes were monitored and recorded by the archaeological team.

This report outlines the results of the latest phase of archaeological evaluation undertaken at Hanson's Over/Needingworth Quarry. The evaluation area covered some 93ha to the north of Willingham and to the east of the River Great Ouse (centred on TL 395 728). The investigation constitutes the fifth mitigation phase of the Quarry and encompasses an area immediately to the south of the existing working quarry, which includes the site of Willingham Mere, an extinct lake that existed until the turn of the eighteenth century. The work was carried out between September and November 2018. The investigation revealed a continuation of the buried landscape recorded to the north during both the 2012 evaluation and subsequent phases of excavation. Characterised by submerged gravel terraces, this landscape saw occupation during the Neolithic and Early–Middle Bronze Age before the development of an early phase of Willingham Mere and marginal fen resulted in a drastic change to the local environment. Given the latter, palaeoenvironmental investigation and particularly detailed recording of the extensive mere deposits—relating to two major phases of its formation and spread—formed a major component of the evaluation.

Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) were commissioned by St. Johns College, Cambridge (c/o Savills) to undertake open-area excavations on land south of Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EQ prior to the site's redevelopment into student accommodation. The site was split into two excavation Areas. They targetted a stretch of Roman road identified in a previous evaluation. In Area 1, the road surface had been badly damaged by medieval/post-medieval agricultural activity. However, despite this, several remaining pockets of gravelled/metalled road surface did survive. Extending along the western side of the road were three intercutting parallel ditches, whilst along the eastern side two further intercutting ditches were present, indicating this stretch of the road underwent some level of maintenance or slight realignment during its time in use. Seemingly buried within the sub-ballast material forming the eastern camber of the road a partial human burial was identified and recorded. Area 2 was much more heavily disturbed than Area 1, and unfortunately no evidence of the road layers such as the sub-ballast or gravelled/metalled surface survived. However, two roadside ditches were present, and aligned with the two main ditches identified within Area 1.