Sandy Coarse Ware (SCW): Formcooking. Fabric beige due to sand content. Date 2nd/4th C AD.

Sandy Grey Ware + flint, shell (SGW + flint etc.): Formand Fabric as previous page.

Sandy Grey Ware (SGW): Form cooking. Fabric shades of grey from gault clay. Date 2nd/4thC AD.

Horningsea (HORN): major coarse ware produced along the Cam valley at Horningsea, Waterbeach and Milton. Form cooking, large storage jars with distinctive combed pattern, transport. Fabric blue/grey from gault clay. Date 2nd/4th C AD.

To keep members who are unable to attend the dig at the Twenty Pence project site updated we are shall be writing a daily blog of the dig. These pages shall give you a feel for how the dig is going, what we think we are finding and hopefully some photos of the dig and any interesting finds we have.

In April 2011 FEAG held presentations on the progression made to date in the Twenty pence Project.  This page contains the presentation given on the background research on Romano-British sites within the area.

Please download the pdf to read the presentation.

The Twenty Pence Project planning group decided that it might be useful to dig a trial test-pit on the site before the main dig in July so that we had a feel for how deep were the features that could be seen on the geophysics and how easily they could be seen. So Matt, Roger and I dug one trench 2 metres by 1 metre over a period of two days. Matt had selected a position which appeared to be over one of the features seen on the geophysics.

The Fen Edge Archaeology Group started their first practical work for the Twenty Pence Road Project.  This involved performing a Molehill survey and metal detecting.  The event took place on a fairly mild day in March 2011.

The day before the event a number of members visited the site to mark out a grid system that could be used throughout the project and enable mapping of finds.  The field was marked out into a grid system 30m2.