Bronze Age monuments and Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon landscapes at Cambridge Road, Bedford / Andy Chapman, Pat Chapman.

Includes bibliographical references.

Open area excavation on 14.45ha of land at Cambridge Road, Bedford was carried out in 2004-5 in advance of development. A background scatter of Early Neolithic flint, including a Langdale stone axe, may be related to the nearby presence of the Cardington causewayed enclosure.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Aims and objectives -- Review of original research objectives -- Revised research objectives -- Archaeological background -- Background -- Topography and geology -- Excavation methodology -- Structural evidence -- Site chronology and radiocarbon dating -- Fig 1.1: Site location -- Table 1.1: Summary of site chronology -- Table 1.2: Radiocarbon dates: tabulation -- Table 1.2: Radiocarbon dates: plot -- Fig 1.2: General plan -- 2. The Bronze Age Monument Complex -- Neolithic activity

The Early and Middle Bronze Age monuments -- The causewayed ring ditch -- The ditch -- The western ditch -- Leached fills -- The main ditch circuit -- Secondary and final fills -- Finds from the ring ditch -- The Middle Bronze Age burials, pit 243 -- A satellite cremation burial, B8 -- The central area -- Features in the central area -- Features in the vicinity of the ring ditch -- The round barrow -- A possible precursor -- Early features -- The barrow ditches -- The ditch silting -- Burial pit 260 -- The burial -- The pit -- A timber chamber -- The barrow mound

The possible height of a central mound -- A Middle to Late Bronze Age L-shaped ditch -- The ditch -- The western arm -- The southern arm -- Possible associated pits -- A Middle to Late Bronze Age linear ditch? -- Finds from the Bronze Age monument complex: Neolithic stone and flint axes -- by Andy Chapman -- The worked flint -- Andy Chapman -- The flint assemblage -- Blades and serrated blades -- Cores -- Flakes -- Arrowheads -- Chunks, shattered and burnt flint -- Knives and ovates -- Leaf arrowhead -- Miscellaneous retouch -- Notched/pointed implements -- Scrapers -- The raw material

Catalogue of illustrated flint (Figs 2.38 & 2.39) -- Chronology of the assemblage -- Flint distribution -- Linear ditch 8002 -- The Bronze Age monuments -- The causewayed ring ditch -- The round barrow -- The distribution of flint in Area 2 -- The Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age scattered pits -- The Middle/Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age waterhole, 2272 -- Pit 5012 -- The flint distribution -- Pottery from the Bronze Age monuments -- by Andy Chapman -- The late Bronze Age L-shaped ditch -- The ring ditch -- Catalogue of illustrated late Bronze Age pottery

Pottery from possible Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age pits -- Pit 2193, pre-dating eastern ditch of the linear ditch system -- Pit 2202, pre-dating central ditch of the linear ditch system -- Pit 2212 -- Fired clay from the L-shaped ditch -- by Pat Chapman -- Faunal and environmental remains from the Bronze Age monument complex: Human remains from the Bronze Age monuments -- Age -- by Teresa Hawtin -- Cremation burial B8 -- Pathologies -- Sex -- Animal bone from the Bronze Age monuments -- by Rebecca Gordon -- The environmental evidence from the round barrow and the ring ditch -- The ring ditch

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