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Late Neolithic Grooved Ware near Cambridge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

D. H. S. Frere
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The site to be described was discovered by the writer in a newly cut ditch three miles south of Cambridge on the Hills Road (fig. I). It was revealed in section as a small pit, about 3 ft. across by 2 ft. deep, sunk into the chalk (fig. 2), and investigation showed that the major part of it had already been removed: when cleared the recess was found to extend in plan barely a foot from the face. The spot lies at about 60 ft. above O.D., and the ground rises very gently on three sides, but is level or slightly depressed towards the north-west. The sub-soil is the Lower Chalk, which at this point is overlain by about 8 in. of brown soil and the same depth of dark plough-soil.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 23 , Issue 1-2 , January 1943 , pp. 34 - 41
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1943

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References

page 34 note 1 Cambridge Region (1938), 27.Google Scholar

page 37 note 1 Except where otherwise stated, the facts summarized in the argument have been derived from the following sources: Piggotts's report on the Grooved Ware site at Clacton (Proc. Prehist. Soc. ii (1936), 191Google Scholar ff.), , Childe'sPrehistoric Communities, 84Google Scholar ff., and Dawn of European Civilization (1939), 315–16,Google Scholar, Hawke'sPrehistoric Foundations of Europe, 268Google Scholar ff., and Clark's survey of Cambridgeshire Archaeology in The Cambridge Region (1938), 82 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 38 note 1 , Clark, Antiquity, v, 421, fig. 4.Google Scholar

page 38 note 2 Antiq. Journ. xiii, 266–96;Google Scholar xv, 248-319.

page 38 note 3 See , Godwin, Cambridge Region, 18,Google Scholar and the map on p. 21, which shows extinct watercourses traced by Major Fowler to that neighbourhood.

page 39 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xiii, 289 ff.Google Scholar