An Archaeological Evaluation at Barrington Cement Quarry, Barrington, Cambridgeshire.

An archaeological evaluation was carried out by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit between 5th & 8th October 1999, on a part of the land subject to the Mineral Extraction Planning Application made by Rugby Cement in respect of the proposed extension to the Barrington Cement Quarry. the evaluation identified new evidence of the medieval agricultural landscape to add to that identified from the air. The evidence permits speculation upon the potential survival of an aspect of that landscape up to the early 20th century. No demonstrably prehistoric features were identified though it is also possible that the pottery from one ditch is in fact prehistoric. The undiagnostic sherds recovered here may be easily confused and an Iron Age ditch wrongly dated to the medieval