COMING SOON: Report of Archaeology Test Pit Excavation at Long Meadow and Hill Close, Fen Road, Milton, Cambridgeshire. Graeme Clarke, Michelle Bullivant & W Derek Booth
Report of Archaeology Test Pit Excavation at Long Meadow and Hill Close, Fen Road, Milton, Cambridgeshire. Graeme Clarke, Michelle Bullivant & W Derek Booth
Between 15th and 19th September 2008 Active8 Archaeology excavated six test pits at Long Meadow and Hill Close, Fen Road, Milton, Cambridgeshire. The work included the hand digging and recording of archaeological features in order to evaluate the archaeological potential in support of aerial photography, geophysics and fieldwalking previously undertaken at the site. Evidence from the test pits in Long Meadow clearly indicates the presence of substantial boundary ditches from the Roman period. It concluded that the archaeological features and associated finds identified in Long Meadow support the evidence from the previous phase of work, indicating the presence of settlement from the Roman period probably compromising a native homestead. Evidence from a test pit at the western end of Hill Close clearly indicates the presence of a substantial boundary ditch which may be medieval, contemporary with the manor house and part of a moat, or of an earlier origin.
Dr W Derek Booth, Milton Parish Archaeological Warden, instigated the project and jointly managed the excavation. Michelle Bullivant directed the excavation with the assistance of Graeme Clarke, both from Active8 Archaeology.