Manor Farm, Stretham: An Archaeological Desk Based Assessment.

Abstract

This archaeological desk based assessment was commissioned by Haysom Ward Miller on behalf of Stretham & Wilburton Community Land Trust and Laragh House Developments Ltd in order to assess the potential for archaeology on the of a proposed housing development at Manor Farm, Stretham, Cambridgeshire. The desk based assessment shows that the proposed development area lies within a study area rich in prehistoric and Roman archaeology and on the fringes of a village whose origins stretch back to the early Medieval period. Although within the Proposed Development Area itself there is only a few fragments of early Medieval pottery from the ploughed surface of the field known, there is potential for archaeology, especially of the Prehistoric and Roman periods, based on patterns of known finds within the study area and the favourable topographic and geological conditions within and around the PDA.