NHER 25930 (Monument record) - ?Prehistoric hearth and multi-period finds

1985 to 1986. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of excavation of sewer pipe trench between Newton Road and new Sewage Works.
A variety of the unstratified finds were recovered from this trench, including:
76 work flints (44 flakes, 1 retouched flake, 26 blades, 5 cores).
2 Roman tiles.
1 Roman/Late Saxon pottery sherd.
11 Late Saxon pottery sherds (10 Thetford ware, 1 St Neots ware).
7 early medieval pottery sherds
6 post-medieval pottery sherds.
Although the majority of the worked flints were not closely datable, a few delicate blades, 2 two-platform blade cores and a bifacially crested piece were identified as probably Mesolithic by J. J. Wymer (NAU).

The only archaeologically significant feature to be exposed in this pipe trench was a circular depression filled with fire-blackened sand and burnt flint (located close to the Sewage Works, between TF 822 152 and TF 823 151). This was interpreted as a hearth and a prehistoric date suggested on the basic of its proximity to numberous worked flints.

See published report (S1) and file notes for further details.
E. Rose (NLA) 29 November 1990. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 4 December 2013.