The Excavation of a Late Iron Age Cemetery at Hinxton, Cambridgeshire 1994

Abstract

The Late Iron Age cemetery excavated at Hinxton comprised eight burials, five of which were enclosed within circular ditches. All the burials were with in pits and were accompanied by a single, or multiple pottery vessels, three of the burials also contained metal work. Later, probably in the early Roman period, the cemetery was used again to inter three inhumations. The cemetery lay within an area crossed by Roman ditches; elements of a system of field boundaries which covers a large portion of the quarry site and the local landscape. The cemetery had been subject to considerable truncation by ploughing, probably beginning in the Roman period.