Astrazeneca New Cambridge Site. Archaeological Excavation Interim Report.

Abstract

Archaeological investigations were undertaken by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) at AstraZeneca’s New Cambridge Site (NCS) at the Addenbrooke’s Biomedical Campus, Cambridge. Work was carried out over the course of eight months between July 2014 and early March 2015 and comprised excavations in two separate areas; the South Plot (TL 45830 54900), to the west of Francis Crick Avenue, and the North Plot, to the east (TL 45980 55140; see Figure 1). An area totalling 4.94ha was machine stripped revealing archaeology ranging in date from the Early Neolithic through to the medieval period and dominated by settlement remains dating to the Middle Bronze Age (South Plot) and the 1st to 4th centuries AD (North Plot).