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The Impington Farmers Market is planned to be held this Saturday in the open air at Histon Baptist Church with their usual local, artisan, and organic food.

Full social distancing measures will be applied, so please follow the directions, and the food will be in compliance with government rules.

An informal meeting on 12th March at 2:00 pm at Phoenix where Pippa Heylings and Yvonne Murray will be to answer any queries following Abbeyfields notice that they intend to close Burdett House.

This lovely, friendly home, for up to 17 residents, is located on Station Road near the Baptist Church. Over the past five months we have been lobbying for it to remain open and provide a much needed home for those aged 80 plus years. It particularly caters for the older person who wishes to maintain their independence but with more support than they would get in purely sheltered housing. It is not a Care Home.

Further details can be obtained from Tony Raphael (tonrap1@gmail.com)

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Histon & Impington Archaeology Group – the FebruaryTalk

The Bronze Age in East Anglia: Changing the landscape and settlement with Nick Gilmour, Senior Project Manager, Oxford Archaeology East on Monday 17th February 2020, 7.30 pm at Histon Baptist Church

On Monday 17^th February 2020, Nick Gilmour (Oxford Archaeology East and of Histon!) speaks on Bronze Age Settlement in East Anglia, 730pm at the Histon Baptist Church. Recent archaeological evidence has shown that Bronze Age people were the first to start massive changes of the landscape, with new field systems and droves and established trading networks across a wide area.

People with metal technology (which originated around the eastern Mediterranean) arrived from the continent about 2500 BC. Herodotus, the so called ‘father of history’, referred in the 5^th century BC to these islands as the Cassiterides, the tin islands – so maybe that is why they braved the weather! These people were great builders or modifiers e.g. Stonehenge.

Nick has archaeological interests in British prehistory, particularly the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Most of his field experience is around East Anglia, and he has extensive experience in fenland archaeology.

Aerial photographs of crop marks show many previously unsuspected settlements in Norfolk with complex field systems – Nick has been involved with excavations that confirm that such cropmarks (and there are many in our region) can indicate settlements – for example dating back to 1,500 BC at Ormsby St Michael in the Norfolk Broads – which revealed evidence of weaving and indirectly, metal working.