A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire; River Great Ouse Landscape Block
Alex Smith, David Bowsher, Jürgen van Wessel, Emma West, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5284/1081255. How to cite using this DOI
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- ADS Collection: 3805
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1081255
- How to cite using this DOI
Introduction
This is a child collection of the main A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon archaeological project archive. For the purposes of analysis, the various targeted excavation areas (TEAs) that formed the mitigation work have been grouped into eight Landscape Blocks. These have been defined due to the nature of the archaeology, their geographical location, and in some cases, their geology/topography.
This child collection concerns the River Great Ouse Landscape Block. River Great Ouse comprises three TEAs (19-21), covering 19.5 hectares on the floodplain of the River Ouse north of Offord Cluny. Archaeological remains from Iron Age and Roman periods were encountered.
Image: Aerial view of TEA20 near Offord Cluny, with the East Coast Mainline running through the middle of the shot. This site featured an Iron Age farm overlain with a Roman settlement, most likely part of a villa complex. Site conditions meant that intact elm posts were found during the excavation of a Roman aisled building;
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