Social Infrastructure Building, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge. Archaeological Evaluation and Monitoring

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In September 2015 a programme of archaeological monitoring was undertaken during groundworks carried out on the site of the proposed new Social Infrastructure Building at Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge. This consisted of the monitoring of the trenches dug to remove the concrete foundations and service tunnels following demolition of pre-existing buildings. No archaeology was identified within any of the trench sections examined, most of the layers consisting of redeposited garden soil and building levelling horizons resting upon natural chalkyflinty colluvium and gravelly sand. Most of the subsoil deposits had evidently been removed following the truncation of these deposits to depths of between 0.5m - 1m. Given this level of truncation and the complete absence of evidence for archaeology (including re-deposited pottery) plans for further archaeological evaluation trenching within this area were curtailed.