A Landscape of Plenty: excavations on a Roman estate, Cambridgeshire

REVIEW BY PADDY LAMBERT This report details the results of a large (3.56ha) excavation undertaken by Archaeological Research Services prior to the construction of the new Cambridgeshire South Police Station. The result of the analysis suggests the site formed a substantial part of a large later Romano-British estate, primarily focused on intensive agricultural management of livestock and crops, a common feature in the region during much of the Roman period. Evidence for a central villa, or similar, primarily comes from the respectable amount of building debris found on the site. Romano-British agricultural estates and their roles in wider social and tenurial developments are essent