Carbon Challenge Site, Glebe Court, Fletton, Peterborough

Abstract

Between 30th May and 1st June 2012 Oxford Archaeology East conducted an archaeological evaluation on land at Carbon Challenge Site, Glebe Court, Fletton, Peterborough in advance of a residential development (TL 195 978). Eleven evaluation trenches totalling nearly 300m in length were excavated across the southern part of a c.7.4ha site. These revealed modern deposits with the earliest feature comprising a ditch backfilled in c.AD 1800. Modern disturbances across the site related to its former use as a railway sidings and subsequent industrial use from the mid 20th century. No old ground surfaces were identified and the natural was truncated and directly overlain by modern layers