Addenbrookes Energy Centre, Cambridgeshire. An Archaeological Excavation Assessment.

Abstract

Cambridge Archaeological Unit undertook an open-area excavation during the winter of 2013/2014 on land adjacent to Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge prior to the development of an Energy Centre. The excavation identified several earlier prehistoric ditches which probably formed part of a wider field system. Overlying this was a dense series of ditches and associated settlement activity which constituted three different phases of activity spanning the Late-Iron Age through to the Early Romano-British period. Also present were a number of later medieval and post-medieval agricultural boundary ditches.