Broom Quarry Bedfordshire: Archaeological Excavation (Phase 9A)

Archaeological excavation was undertaken by a team from Cambridge Archaeological Unit at Broom Quarry, Bedfordshire (centred TL 175 440) in August and September 2004. The work was commissioned by Tarmac Southern Ltd in advance of gravel extraction (Phase 9A) and followed an initial assessment by trial trenching (Cooper 2004a). It comprised four separate areas of open excavation, investigating a total of 0.61ha. These identified a broad scatter of Neolithic pits and tree throws, a concentration of Bronze Age pits and postholes, and Romano-British and later ditches