Test pit excavation within currently occupied rural settlements: results of the University of Cambridge CORS project in 2011

2011 saw the seventh year of test pit excavation within currently occupied rural settlements (CORS) in East Anglia carried out under the supervision of Access Cambridge Archaeology (ACA) directed by Dr Carenza Lewis at the University of Cambridge. As in previous years, this archaeological activity combines education and university outreach (particularly within the secondary school sector) with the archaeological investigation of currently occupied rural settlements (CORS). Short summaries of the results of the University of Cambridge CORS excavations are published annually in Medieval Settlement Research (Lewis 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), and online at http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/ aca/excavationreports.html. This website also includes pottery reports from each site and maps showing the distribution of pottery period by period from the prehistoric to the modern era for every settlement where test pit excavations have been carried out by ACA since 2005. Anyone wishing to fully appreciate the summaries in this paper is advised to visit the website and read the text in conjunction with viewing the maps