Ireton's Way, Mepal, Cambridgeshire. An Archaeological Evaluation Assessment.

Following geophysical and aerial survey, Cambridge Archaeological Unit undertook a programme of evaluation trenching across two fields on open farmland located between Mepal and Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Trenching of Field 1 identified prehistoric ditches and postholes that correspond with cropmarks which illustrate a coaxial system of ditched field allotment of a probable prehistoric date. This activity was confined predominantly to the western third of Field 1, and with only minimal expression having undergone significant post-Medieval truncation through experimental agriculture. A palaeochannel was also identified through magnetometry, and was shown to predate human activity. In Field 2 a number of post-medieval ditches were identified, including a boundary ditch demarcating the two Cambridgeshire districts of Fenland and East Cambridgeshire. Also, more interestingly, several prehistoric pits, including one dated to the Early/Middle Neolithic and three dating to the Early Bronze Age were recorded suggesting the potential for encountering further dispersed prehistoric activity across this part of the PDA