An Archaeological Evaluation for the Shingay-cum-Wendy Sewage Scheme, Cambridgeshire

In September 1996, the Archaeological Field Unit of Cambridgeshire County Council (AFU) were contracted by Anglian Water Services Limited to conduct an archaeological evaluation along an easement for a proposed sewage line at Shingay-cum-Wendy, Cambridgeshire. Nine trenches totalling 220 metres in length were excavated within the project easement. A number of features derived from agricultural boundaries and use were encountered. These included a ditch, a possible ditch, ten furrows, and a post hole. One ditch contained sherds of St. Neot’s type wares suggesting that it was constructed in the late Saxon/early medieval period. The other features have all been interpreted to be associated with medieval/post-medieval cultivation. No features were identified which could be associated with the Roman and medieval/post-medieval settlements at the north-eastern and south-western, respectively, ends of the pipeline.