Over 150 residents, neighbours and members of the surrounding community delved into the fascinating past at St Neots Wintringham’s Archaeology Day in October.
Urban&Civic’s Wintringham team worked with partners Oxford Archaeology and St Neots Museum to produce a wealth of information and artefacts from excavations at Wintringham and the local area, dating back as early as the Middle Bronze Age – over 3,500 years ago. Visitors were able to see how archaeological investigations are helping piece together the jigsaw of St Neots’ past.
So far, the remains of around 60 roundhouses - used as homes - have been found at Wintringham. They survive in the ground as circular ditches or gullies, which outline the shape of the outer walls. Visitors were treated to a glimpse of what life would have been like in the Iron Age with models of Wintringham’s roundhouses on display as well as an interactive Iron Age experience from a re-enactor who brought along a range of activities for the whole family to enjoy.
As well as presentations on the latest finds at Wintringham, which include a possible shrine complex at the heart of a large Roman settlement, Oxford Archaeology brought a range of Roman artefacts from the latest dig. These included rotary querns used for grinding grain into flour, painted wall plaster, animal bones from a Roman enclosure ditch and pottery fragments found in an Early Roman kiln.
