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Excavations at Stanground South, Peterborough : prehistoric, Roman and post-medieval settlement along the margins of the Fens by William A. Boismier, Edmund Taylor, Yvonne Wolframm-Murray is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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MOLA (formerly Northamptonshire Archaeology) undertook archaeological excavations at Stanground South between September 2007 and November 2009 on behalf of Persimmon Homes (East Midlands) Ltd and in accordance with a programme of works designed and overseen by CgMs Heritage. The site is situated on the south-eastern outskirts of Peterborough, on glacial tills overlooking along the Fen edge. The works comprised five areas of set-piece excavation and a series of strip map and record areas, targeted on areas of archaeological potential identified by previous evaluation works. In total, an area of 70ha was subject to archaeological mitigation. The excavations recorded archaeological remains dating from the Bronze Age to the medieval period. The earliest features comprised four burnt mounds dating to the early Bronze Age, one of which was associated with two superimposed buildings and a small group of up to six cremations. In the middle Bronze Age there was a substantial unenclosed cemetery (urnfield) comprising 78 cremations (as well as a further possible three outlying cremations to the urnfield). In the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age a substantial droveway, up to 65m wide, was constr

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Author
William A. Boismier, Edmund Taylor, Yvonne Wolframm-Murray
Publisher
Archaeopress Access Archaeology
Published
2021
Language
EN
ISBN
9781789698442
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Humanities

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