Archaeological Investigations at the Former Tower Works Site, Mallory Road, Fengate, Peterborough

In December 2004 a team from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit conducted a fourth phase of archaeological investigations at the former Tower Works site, Mallory Road, Fengate, Peterborough (centred TL 2046 9887). The work was carried out on behalf of Marshal Motor Group in advance of commercial development. It comprised a programme of targeted trial trenching, a series of intensive buried soil investigations, and open area excavation (0.1ha). The investigations revealed further traces of a Bronze Age field system and the southern edge of a late 2nd to 4th century Romano-British farmstead. Settlement features included the corner of a ditched enclosure, a possible granary structure, and a well containing a large assemblage of pottery and tile. Surrounding these features was a dark ‘artefact enriched’ buried soil indicating either horticultural activity or off-site middening. The results complement those from previous investigations at the site. In addition they provide further context for the important assemblages of finds salvaged from adjacent quarry pits by G. Wyman Abbott in the early 20th century