An Archaeological Assessment at Girton Road, Girton, Cambridgeshire

Abstract

Assessment excavations were carried-out at Girton Road in order to clarify the nature and extent of previously recorded archaeological features and to determine whether other remains existed within the proposed development area. The fieldwork provided further useful information concerning known crop-marked features. However, the absence of significant archaeological features other than those indicated by cropmarks, the very low density of finds associated with these features, and sparsity of any other material recovered during machining suggests that activity in this area during the Iron Age, Roman or indeed other periods was small-scale. The focus of Late Iron Age and Roman occupation and probably lay to the south, although Early/Middle Iron Age activity, of which there were slight indications, may have been centred elsewhere. The results indicate that a number of the more prominent crop-marked features are of natural origin.