fenland

Prehistoric continuity in the Cambridgeshire landscape: Exploring recent excavations at Needingworth Quarry

For almost 30 years, the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) has been uncovering diverse archaeological features and finds at one of the UK’s largest sand- and gravel-extraction sites. Excavations have illuminated a landscape of prehistoric settlements, field systems, and monuments, located just three miles east of St Ives in Cambridgeshire. Matthew Brudenell, Charles Barker, Jonathan Tabor, and Chris Wakefield report on the latest discoveries.

Waterlands: prehistoric life at Bar Pasture, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough

Review by Mark Knight There is something of a contradiction between the main title of this publication and the archaeology presented within its pages. The book details and interprets an impressively large-scale, decade-long excavation of a low-lying Bronze Age site…

RIGHT The latest CA was a special issue, highlighting new evidence of migration in the early medieval period.

Ancient DNA and ‘Anglo-Frisians’

I have a personal dislike of the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ to describe the people and culture of southern and eastern Britain from the 4th to the 8th centuries because it is anachronistic – it implies homogeneity where I see much more interesting diversity

Evidence of medieval fenland use discovered in Burwell

During the most recent excavations there, the team discovered what appears to be a small lode, which may have been used to bring boats further into this settlement.