Early Anglo-Saxon grubenhaus at land west of London Road (EHER 81943)

Three excavation areas were targeted in 2020 after trial trenching. A lesser intensity of activity during the early Anglo-Saxon period is evidenced by the presence of a single Sunken-Featured Building (grubenhaus).

June and July 2020. Excavation. A lesser intensity of activity during the early Anglo-Saxon period is evidenced by the presence of a single Sunken-Featured Building (SFB), located in the east of excavation Area A. The building appears to exist in isolation, so it is difficult to characterise the exact nature of land use in the period, but is thought perhaps to constitute a component of the dispersed rural settlement in the agricultural hinterland of what would later become the middle Anglo-Saxon settlement at Wicken Bonhunt, about 0.75km to the west. <1>