Time travellers' tales (Hardback)
Essays from the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Archaeological Excavations
Imprint: MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781907586576
Published: 30th January 2025
Script Academic & Professional
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22km of road, 232ha of land, 8 years of work – the scale of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme necessitated one of the largest commercial archaeological projects ever to be undertaken within the UK. Archaeologically, the discoveries were even more impressive, ranging from the remains of Pleistocene woolly mammoths, Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial and burial monuments, dozens of Iron Age and Roman settlements, a whole new Roman pottery industry, Saxon settlements with royal connections, a deserted medieval hamlet, nineteenth century railway remains, and everything in-between.
This monograph discusses some of the project’s key findings, major themes, and interesting debates, and is designed to supplement the other outputs from the project. Starting in the Bronze Age, we consider why evidence for middle-late Bronze Age settlement was not identified, and yet two of the largest cremation cemeteries in the region were. The Iron Age chapter explores the huge increase in archaeologically visible settlement during the later Iron Age, whilst the Roman chapter places the abundant evidence for Roman settlement amongst the regional dataset to provide a review of socioeconomic development in the rural hinterlands of Godmanchester and Cambridge. The Saxon chapter considers the ‘Middle Saxon settlement revolution’ and the impact this had on the A14 settlements, with the medieval chapter focusing on the deserted medieval hamlet of Houghton and its relationship with surrounding woodlands.
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About Lawrence Billington
Post-Excavation Project Officer, Oxford Archaeology East
About Matthew Brudenell
Dr Matthew Brudenell is the Director of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit. He has expertise on Later Bronze Age and Iron Age ceramics, with primary research interests in the archaeology of the Cambridge region and the later prehistory of Eastern England.
About Claire Christie
Claire Christie is a senior post-excavation archaeologist for Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd, responsible for the management of post-excavation projects through to publication. She completed her PhD at the University of Aberdeen in 2020. Her main research interests are prehistoric settlement and the development of field systems in northern Britain.