An Archaeological Evaluation at Knobbs Farm, Somersham, Cambridgeshire: Lafarge-Redland Quarry Development Phase I
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
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An archaeological evaluation, comprising a programme of fieldwalking and the machining of trenches and test pits, was carried out on a 5ha. area of former arable land north-west of Somersham at TL365 790, in advance of the expansion of a gravel quarry. The evaluation area lies approx. 500m to the south-west of the site of an Iron Age/Roman settlement at Knobbs Farm, recognised as a complex of cropmarks on aerial photographs. However, only insubstantial field boundary ditches were found, dating to the Roman period and representing the outlying fields of a settlement. Medieval ridge and furrow covers part of the site and was recognized in the evaluation trenches, following a different alignment to the Roman field systems.