Archaeological Evaluations and Test Pits at the Darlow Depot Site, Fengate, Peterborough

Thirty foundation pits were excavated ahead of the construction of a new building on the Darlow Depot site in Fengate, Peterborough. Five evaluation trenches were also excavated on the eastern side of the site, on land not previously evaluated. Twelve of the foundation pits contained archaeology, two exposing the ditch and associated post-holes of the Neolithic/Bronze Age barrow previously and partly investigated on the site. The remaining pits contained ditches already known or suggested by the crop mark survey, and small pits, some of which may have had a natural origin. The evaluation trenches contained numerous pits and ditches, some of which were undoubtedly continuations of known crop marks. Some Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement activity was encountered, including the edge of a circular post-hole building