Images and GIS from an Archaeological Evaluation at Unit 2, St Johns Business Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire 2022

This collection comprises images and GIS data from an archaeological evaluation by Cotswold Archaeology at Unit 2, St Johns Business Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. The work was undertaken in June 2022, at the request of SLR Consulting. A total of 16 trenches, each measuring 30m long by 1.8m wide trenches were excavated across the c.2.9ha site. The results of the fieldwork broadly confirmed those of a preceding programme of geophysical survey. Archaeological features in the form of ditches, as well as a small number of pits, were encountered at the northern end and within the western portion of the Site and appeared likely to related to a known Late Iron Age/Romano-British settlement previously investigated immediately to the north of the Site. The pottery assemblage consisted largely of coarsewares and utilitarian jar forms consistent with low status domestic activity, although few fragments of finer dishes, cups, and flagons were also recovered, confirming the consumption or service of food and/or liquids in the vinicty. The presence of some fineware products from the Lower Nene Valley and both South and Central Gaulish samian production centres suggests a level of access to markets supplying both regional and imported wares. Crop processing and food preparation waste recovered from bulk soil samples further confirm the close proximity of the Site to core areas of domestic settlement activity. The presence of marine oyster shells provides further evidence of food consumption in the vicinity and represents additional evidence for access to markets supplying regional goods. Two systems of likely post-medieval ridge and furrow cultivation identified by the geophysical survey were also encountered within the trenches, as well as the line of an east/west aligned post-medieval former field boundary ditch which formerly bisected the site