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The study reviewed the known archaeological record of the area around Langwood Farm West, Chatteris, supplementing the findings of the Fenland Survey with details from fieldwalking and trench investigations carried outby the CAU in 1993. The proposed development site sits within a n extensive area of dense archaeology dating to several periods, principally Bronze Age , Iron Age and Romano British, but which also has both earlier and later elements within it. The record indicates a high potential for archaeology within the proposed development area, but that, at least as far as the Bronze Age is concerned, this is unlikely to be settlement related. The later period,(Iron Age and Romano-British) has little evidence from the site itself, but there are large and important sites particularly to the northwest and the north. In addition the development area's fen edge position in this period could potentially contribute valuable environmental data.

The site of a proposed multi-storey car park by Peterborough Station lies in the area behind a former Medieval Tithe Barn; later compound buildings associated with the Tithe Barn fall into the southern part of the area and the possibility of features occurring is highlighted. In addition, Prehistoric and Roman occupation known in the wider area might extend into the present site. The area only became built up in the later 19th century, a churchyard lies just on the eastern edge of the area while buildings, later occupied by LNER employees fall just into the area.

These notes have been prepared at the request of Richard Ellis, International Property Consultants, and are supplementary to the archaeological desktop study, which was prepared for London Transport Property by Mills Whipp Partnership in 1993.

This desktop study has been commissioned by Richard Ellis on behalf of NAPP Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited, in order to assess the archaeological potential of the northern science park area, adjacent to Milton Road, Cambridge. Whilst it has not yet been possible to assess the scale of below ground disturbance, the surrounding locality would suggest the following archaeological potential for the study area: (A) Probable Medieval agricultural activity, (B) Possible Iron Age/Roman settlement activity (C) Possible dispersed Bronze Age settlement activity

A watching brief was maintained during digging work to lay cable ducting between the two branches of Marks and Spencers in Cambridge City centre. Part of the route ran along Church Walk, immediately adjacent to the graveyard of the 12th century Holy Trinity Church. The entire route was hand dug. It was immediately apparent that numerous other services had been laid along the line of Church Walk over many years, most notably a deep gas main on the northern side. Not unsurprisingly, then, no in situ archaeology was observed, however a small number of unarticulated human bone fragments were recovered in the backfill of the gas main trench. In the vicinity of the arch at the western end of Church Walk four substantial pieces of stone masonry were recovered with a possible clunch footing visible at the base of the trench.

An excavation was undertaken in advance of clay extraction at Whitlesey, King's Dyke West, following a watching brief discovery of prehistoric settlement features. The excavation revealed evidence for a dispersed, apparently unenclosed, Late Bronze Age settlement located along the north-western tip of Whittlesey Island and close to the Flag Fen basin. Situated opposite Fengate, the exposed area of settlement consisted of five roundhouses, some four-post structures and multiple pit features. Post Deverel-Rimbury pottery was recovered from many of the buildings and repeatedly from the left-hand side of the structures. One of the buildings produced evidence of episodic feasting, where the remains of many butchered lambs had been buried in a cluster of small pits in the centre of the building or on the left-hand side of its threshold. Accompanying the first of these burials were fragments of an elaborately decorated jar, unique amongst the settlements ceramic assemblage. Outside, pits containing broken saddle querns, incinerated pottery sherds, fire-cracked loom weights and calcined pig bones were encountered, frequently located immediately north of surviving structures. The recurrent, patterned fragmentation and disarticulation of objects prior to their incorporation into the floors and other living spaces within the settlement suggests something other than simple discard.

The initial phase of excavation at Brom Quarry covered an area of 53 hectares across the northern part of the quarry � the Plant Site and Phases 1& .2 The archaeology so far revealed represents the period from the Early Bronze Age (c.1800 - 1600 BC) through to the Middle Iron Age (c.400 � 100 BC). The earlier Bronze Age phases show a landscape composed of funerary and boundary features upon which late Bronze Age and early Iron Age settlement features increasingly encroached. The dominant feature, an early Bronze Age barrow, became the focus for a Middle or Later Age double-ditched boundary nearly half a kilometre in length, and for contemporary burials and ritual deposits. The later settlement activity acknowledges these earlier features, as both boundaries and/or burial places. The eastern half of the barrow ditch was infilled (by re-deposition of the external bank) and cremations were placed within it, the western half remained to be incorporated into the settlement boundary. At the south-east of the barrow, and as part of the extended boundary, were two groups of large circular storage pits, some of which contained deliberately placed deposits of animal bone. These pits, and other elements of the Iron Age settlement, had been preserved beneath a headland road and were thus masked from air reconnaissance. No features of later date were identified beyond a system of Post-Medieval field ditches, which, in the main area of excavation, were aligned on the north-south headland road which bisected the site.

In December 1996 a watching brief was called in mitigation of the development of a student accommodation block for Fitzwilliam College to the rear of 138 Huntingdon Road (TL 4377 5990). The site lies along the projected line of Alexander's (north-of-Huntingdon-Road) Godmanchester Road, this was astroke of remarkable good fortune inasmuch as ti offered the chance to directly test the location/ existence of this Roman route. In the course of limited trenching programme, a major Middle/later Iron Age enclosure complex was found.

This report concerns a secondary stage of a programme of excavations to the west of a c.2. hectare area (designated �Topsoil 95�) north of the kiln yard of the King�s Dyke brick pit, west of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. This area forms a strip along the east end of a c.11 hectare field (Area A), designated for surface stripping in advance of clay extraction with the extension of the quarry area. The excavations complement earlier investigations by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit between March and April 1996. The work is part of a rolling programme of assessment and excavation carried out by the CAU in advance of deep quarrying of the underlying mineral resources. Stonald Field just to the east was evaluated in 1994 and a more extensive evaluation programme with test excavations across the whole of Area A was carried out in October 1995. The current stage of fieldwork was undertaken between 3rd and 6th April and was funded throughout by Hanson Brick Ltd.

A field walking survey at land of Melbourn Road, Royston, Hertfordshire, revealed evidence of prehistoric activity; locales of worked and burnt flint, from the early Neolithic through to the Bronze Age were identified. No evidence of Iron Age or Romano-British activity was found and whilst some Medieval pottery was recovered, the majority of the finds were post-Medieval

This report presents the results of fieldwork carried out as part of an archaeological evaluation of the Tower Works Site, Fengate on behalf of Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Co Ltd and John Samuels Archaeological Consultants, in conformity with the Brief set by the County Archaeology Office (CAO 30.10.96; �2.8). Prior to this, a desktop assessment was prepared outlining the potential for archaeological remains. This highlighted two phases and zones of work: 1) the salvage work by Wyman Abbot in the earlier part of this century on gravel quarries through which he recovered a great quantity of material, chiefly of prehistoric and Roman date. 2) the larger prehistoric landscape as revealed by excavations undertaken as part of the Fengate Project since the 1970s. The site lies within the first zone which is not only defined by the salvage work of Abbott but also the 5m contour line, effectively marking of the higher ground archaeology of Tower Works and Abbott's sites from the fen edge archaeology of the Fengate Project and other recent work. The 7.6 hectare site is proposed for redevelopment by the Commission for the New Towns (CNT) in conjunction with the National Freight Company (NFC) for non-food retail warehousing and services and lies in the southern part of the Eastern Industrial Area (TL 206 987); at the time of fieldwork, the southern (NFC) part was still occupied.

This report presents the results of an archaeological evaluation on the site of a proposed westward extension of the Star Pit Quarry (Oxford Clay), Whittlesey (TL 247 968). The site was one of three areas (A, B, and C) designated for expansion of the Whittlesey Brick Pits by Hanson Brick Ltd, for which a Brief was originally set by the County Archaeology Office in 1993 (CAO 10.11.93). A project design specification was submitted in response and preliminary fieldwork took place to the west of Area A in Stonald Field in 1994. Area A was investigated the following year revealing a Romano-British settlement with further work in 1996 and 1997. Area B contained no archaeological remains and though Area C (the present site) also produced little information from cropmarks or field walking, its location on the fen edge suggested it may have archaeological potential. An updated project design for this site (Area C) was submitted in 1997 and fieldwork was conducted between 11th and 21st March 1997.