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In anticipation of the development of a new storage building for the Bullard Laboratories (TL4312/5948), a trial trench was excavated on the 5th of August 1992 by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) to evaluate the archaeological potential of the site. Apart from quarrying activity, no archaeological evidence was exposed in the trial trench.

A programme of geophysical survey, fieldwalking, metal detecting and open area excavations was undertaken by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit on land at Gravel Digger�s Farm Cottenham (TL489 696), previously the subject of a field assessment by the CAU. The geophysical survey successfully located a number of 18th and 19th century land drains of a local type called �bush drains� and a single, presumably ancient ditch also recorded in the assessment. The fieldwalking and metal-detecting surveys repeated the results of the assessment, that little or no archaeological remains are present in the ploughsoil. The open area excavations allowed the single ditch and the bush drains to be sample excavated. In spite of the excavation of eight, one-metre-wide sections, no dating evidence was recovered from this ditch. On the basis of a similarity of alignment with putatively Roman fieldsystems to the west, the single ditch is tentatively assigned to the Roman period. It would appear that there was no domestic occupation and very little intensive agricultural use of this area during any archaeological or historical period.

This is the report of the archaeological excavation at Canonry House Garden, Ely (NGR TL54118019), carried out by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit for Mr. Gavin Simpson, the archaeological consultant to the Dean and Chapter of Ely Cathedral between 16/10/90 and 26/10/90. The aim of the excavation was to mitigate the impact of the construction of an electricity sub-station by a small excavation with written, drawn, and photographic record.

Excavations at Burrell�s Field, on the northwestern side of Cambridge, produced evidence of prehistoric and Roman settlement located on the First Terrace gravels of the confluence of the River Cam and Bin Brook. Also identified was the utilization of the floodplain meadows from Roman�Medieval periods. Although the important Anglo-Saxon cemetery of St John�s College Playing Fields was located c.300m to the north, no contemporary remains were encountered.

In accordance with a planning consent for mineral extraction, the Cambridge Archaeological Unit was commissioned by ARC Ltd to monitor ground reductions in an extension to their quarry at Barleycroft Farm and there record any discovered archaeological remains.

This desk-top study was commissioned by Andrew Martin Associates on behalf of a consortium including G A Property Services, Hunting Gate Homes, Frank Graham and Partners Ltd, and the landowners Messrs Mason, Robinson and Earey, on land at Warboys, Cambs. The project consists of a desk-top study of the known and potential archaeology of an area of 27 hectares (67 acres).

This study has been commissioned by Pembroke College to assess the likely archaeological impact of the proposed development of a lecture room and drama studio within Pembroke College, Cambridge. The study area lies between the Red Building, the Chapel and the College Library in Pembroke, and the Master's Lodge and nearby barn in Peterhouse.

The excavation of a trench across the north aisle and nave of St Andrew�s the Great, Cambridge, revealed the remains of low density extra-mural activity on the site. The first major use of the site was as a cemetery. Footings were found with belong to the Medieval and seventeenth century church. The area occupied by the present north aisle may have been used as a cemetery until the building of the present church. A sequence of floors associated with the present church was also exposed, suggesting it had been raised to its present level.

This is the report of the archaeological assessment and document search of the archive resource undertaken by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit at Bene't Court, Cambridge (Figures 1 and 2) between 26 October and 2 November 1992 for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge prior to the development proposed jointly by the Arts Theatre and the College.

Anticipating the construction of a new City Council Works Depot, in September, 1992, the Cambridge Archaeological Unit was commissioned to undertake an archaeological field evaluation across a c. 1.5ha site in the Fengate Estate, Peterborough (TL 212985; fig. 1). The site lies on the southwestern side of the Fengate/Flag Fen system, a fen-edge Bronze Age landscape of international stature that has been excavated over a period of some twenty years by Dr Francis Pryor. The unique context of these investigations greatly influenced our approach. Few assessments take place against a background of two decades of high quality fieldwork in the immediate vicinity. Given this, we initially approached the work thinking that because so much was known of the area's archaeology that relatively little excavation per se would need to take place. The investigations would simply document the southern extension of already understood archaeological phenomenon. Once on site, however, this agenda had to be revised. Although what was revealed were certainly components of the basic Fengate system, at the same time much of it proved quite different. The superb preservation of the site, with a deep buried soil cover surviving throughout and settlement-related strata locally, also influenced our approach. Having horizontal strata to complement cut features meant that new aspects of Fengate's archaeology could be elucidated (e.g. the situation of banks locally sealing the buried soil due to the development of arable practices). This degree of survival meant, moreover, that plans for the development might well be curtailed. In the light of what was found we might not see much of the site's archaeology again due to planning constraints. This led us to spend more time on site and carefully excavate a higher proportion of the features than we had originally intended to do.

An archaeological assessment was undertaken by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit on land near Fen Drayton, Cambs. The assessment confirmed that the single cropmark known within the area represents a Romano-British settlement dating to the second half of the fourth century AD. Two previously unknown sites, potentially settlements, one certainly of the Iron Age and the second likely to be of earlier prehistoric (Early Neolithic?) date, were also revealed. A complex series of alluvial deposits, probably of Late-Roman to post-Roman data, was also recovered.

An archaeological assessment was undertaken of a small area immediately south of the New Addenbrookes Hospital complex by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit. The area investigated is surrounded by known archaeological sites, probably of later Iron Age and Romano-British date. Trial trench excavations demonstrated that no significant (i.e. pre-20th century) remains are located within the area to be built over.