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Before Cambourne was built, teams A few stone tools, including a 4,500
of archaeologists painstakingly year old flint arrowhead, show that
excavated buried traces of a during the Stone Age people visited
hidden history. the area, hunting and gathering
food. At this time much of the
The discoveries made show that the landscape was covered by trees.
first settlement at Cambourne dates
back over 3,000 years, to the Bronze
Age. People continued to live here
in Iron Age and Roman times but it
seems that in Anglo-Saxon times
settlements moved to the site of
today's villages.
By 400 BC the area was permanently The farmers kept cattle and sheep
settled. There was at least one Iron and some pigs. The wear on some of
Age farm in each valley, close to a the cattle bones show that they were
stream. The farms had two or three probably used to pull ploughs. Spelt
round houses. Droveways were used and emmer wheat were harvested
to herd animals into the farmyard, using sickles and hazlenuts and
keeping them away from the crops sloes were still gathered for food.
grown nearby.
Tiny snails shells
in the farmyard
ditch show that
it was flooded
in winter as the
heavy clay soils
are slow to drain.
Pond/Waterhole
Roundhouse
Building
Roundhouses Roundhouse
Field
Enclosure/Field Pewter Building
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plates
Drove
Roundhouses
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Cambourne's Story
Bronze Age (2400 - 700BC)
Prehistoric
Iron Age (700BC - AD43)
trackway
Roman (AD43 - 410)
Coin hoard Saxon (410 - 1066)
Medieval (1066 - 1500)
Settlements
Flint Flint
Lower Cambourne
Flint settlements
Boundary Roundhouse
ditches
Ridge
and furrow Droveway
Holloway and enclosure
Ridge Settlement
Settlement
Roundhouse and furrow Jeavons Lane Waterhole
burials
Field boundaries
and waterhole Field
boundaries
Droveway
A1198 and enclosures
Roman
Ermine Street Hearth
and gullies
Enclosures
Ring
Ring
Female
Hobnails
Nail
Male
Male
Cambourne's Story
Book now published
Wessex Archaeology
Face from a Roman flagon or jar
Cambourne's Story