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OA East Report No: 1920

OASIS No: oxfordar3-250300

NGR: TL 6467 6248

Client: Flagship Group

Land Adjacent to No 37

St Johns Avenue, Woodditton

Newmarket

Cambridgeshire

Notes:

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Oxford

Norwich

Cambridge

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London

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Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2016. All rights reserved. Centremaps reference 10001998

Figure 1: Site location showing archaeological trenches (black)

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Figure 2: Trench location plan

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Figure 3: Plan of evaluation trenches.

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Figure 5: Selected sections

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Figure 6: Ordnance Survey map 1925, revised 1938

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Plate 3: Trench 3, from the north-west Plate 4: Trench 4, from the south-west

Plate 2: Trench 2, from the north-west Plate 1: Trench 1, from the south-west

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© Oxford Archaeology East Report Number 1920

Plate 6: Ditch 9, from the south

Plate 5: Ditch 6, from the east

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