Colonising Inlands: Later Prehistoric and Roman North West Cambridge with Christopher Evans, Director, Cambridge Archaeological Unit a HIAG Zoom Talk live on Monday 26th April 2021 7:30 pm
In pre-pandemic days, some of you may have relatively recently visited the open days at Eddington situated between Huntingdon Rd and Madingley Road and seen for yourself the excavations. These revealed occupation of north west Cambridge from 3500 to 1500 years ago from Bronze Age burials to a high-status Roman Villa, alongside what was the main Roman Road from Colchester to Cambridge and through the midlands to Chester – a superhighway of its time.
This talk will outline the results of more than 20 years of fieldwork in the University’s West Cambridge lands. Focusing on the importance of water-supply resourcing, it will address the dynamics of inland colonization during the Bronze Age and the nature of its subsequent Iron Age utilization. It will also review the many Roman-Period settlements that have now been dug there. Including a villa, eight farmsteads and a major roadside centre, the programme has provided major insights into Roman Cambridge’s hinterlands. Indeed, it now amount to one of the most comprehensive excavation programmes of the Roman countryside anywhere undertaken.
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