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From woolly rhinos to Romans: discoveries on one of Britain’s biggest excavations: the A14 in Cambridgeshire.DR ALEX SMITH, Headland Archaeology presents some of the astonishing discoveries made during the UK’s biggest road upgrade.
Rich Roman farmsteads, an abandoned medieval village, Bronze Age cemeteries, a number of Neolithic monuments and even mammoths and woolly rhinos are among amazing archaeological discoveries that were uncovered by MOLA-Headland Infrastructure during Highway England’s £1.5bn A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon road improvement scheme. In total, our archaeologists excavated around 350 hectares – an area around half the size of Gibraltar – between 2016 and 2019, making it one of the biggest and most complex archaeological projects ever undertaken in the UK. We had 250 archaeologists on the ground, digging more than 40 separate excavation areas, and uncovering new information about how the landscape was used over 6,000 years and about the origins of the villages and towns along the A14 in Cambridgeshire today.
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