The Grand Arcade Cambridge. Test Pit Evaluation in the Lion Yard Car Park

Abstract

Three further archaeological test pits were dug as part of evaluation works ahead of the Grand Arcade redevelopment in Cambridge City centre. These were located within the Lion Yard Carp[ark which was not accessible at the time of an earlier evaluation in 1999. The pits revealed a varied post-depositional history of the site, with no archaeology surviving at the lowest level to the north, a sequence of intercutting 12th century pits in the centre and complete truncation to clay in the south. The conclusion was drawn that whilst no horizontal stratigraphy is likely to have survived there is likely to be intermittent survival of deeper cut features beneath the construction levels of the existing carpark.