Striplands Farm West, Longstanton: Test Pit Survey Watching Brief

On the 8th and 9th of March 2005 a watching brief was carried out by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) on two fields, designated H and Q, at Striplands Farm, Longstanton northwest of Cambridge. Twenty-two geological test pits were then sunk across the site. These fields had evaluation fieldwork undertaken across them in 2004, which exposed activity spanning the late Bronze Age to Saxo-Norman periods. Investigations to the southeast of the site, also undertaken by the CAU have encountered late Iron Age, Romano-British and Saxon settlement, as well as a post- Medieval windmill mound. Excavations to the southwest of the site have provided information concerning the later Saxon/Early Medieval origins of Longstanton