Excavations at Addenbrooke's: the Hutchinson Site

Abstract

Excavations at the Hutchison site, Addenbrookes, Cambridge, occurred between late September 2002 and March 2003. Late in the programme watching brief recording also occurred along the line of a new access road running east from the site. In the course of the main excavations some 1264 features were exposed, with 4717 contexts recorded. The site proved to be prolific with more than 43,000 finds recovered, including 21,917 sherds of pottery and 12,498 animal bones. Upon the discovery of the site’s kilns, relevant swathes were, in addition, subject to magnetic susceptibility sampling. Aside from localised patches of metalling across the southern part of the site, no horizontal strata as such survived its long history of arable usage.