Margetts Farm, Buckden, Cambridgeshire

For thousands of years, the Great Ouse Valley has been a place where people have lived, died, and worshipped. These three elements were all evident in the prehistoric landscape identified by Albion Archaeology near Margetts Farm, Buckden, Cambridgeshire during a series of archaeological excavations in 1999-2004. The valley’s Neolithic and early Bronze Age inhabitants use the land here for primarily ceremonial and funerary purposes: a henge was revealed by the excavations, as well as other monuments associated with burials and other rituals.

The later Bronze Age landscape took on a more agricultural aspect, and a people first began to settle here in the early Iron Age. Settlement was never intensive, but the presence of enclosures, roundhouses and other buildings attests to periodic occupation throughout the Iron Age. The Romans also used this area for agriculture, possibly growing grapes, but no further traces of settlement were found between the Iron Age and the construction of Margetts Farm itself.

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