Hinchingbrooke Logistics Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

Between the 18th of August and the 17th of October 2025, Oxford Archaeology conducted an archaeological evaluation at the site of the proposed Hinchingbrooke Logistics Park, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire (TL 21268 72685). Four hundred and eighty-two trenches were excavated across a landscape of high archaeological potential, with later prehistoric and Romano-British settlement remains previously recorded in the immediate vicinity. The trial trenching revealed a dense sequence of activity spanning the Middle Iron Age to later Romano-British periods. Evidence of earlier activity was also recorded, with an Early Neolithic pit and two Late Bronze Age pits revealed. Five areas of archaeological interest were identified. Middle Iron Age settlements were located in the south of the site in Area 1 and in the north of the site in Area 5. Middle Iron Age features included post built-structures, circular enclosures and a possible trackway. From the Late Iron Age and into the Early Romano-British period there was an expansion of settlement activity, with three distinct foci evidenced. Several substantial enclosures and numerous post-built structures of Early Romano-British date were evidenced. A single Early Romano-British inhumation was also recorded within a ditch in the south-east of the site. Evidence indicates that activity continued at one of the identified settlements/farmsteads into the later Romano-British period, with a discrete assemblage of 2nd- to 4th-century AD pottery recovered. Medieval and post-medieval features at the site were limited to field boundary ditches and furrows associated with arable agriculture.