Cantelupe Road, Haslingfield
History of Cantelupe Road
Cantelupe Road was the main way to Cambridge. On the higher part of the road, Stoney Hill, was a Saxon burial ground and a Roman settlement.
The cemetery was uncovered in 1874-5 during coprolite digging. (See C Fox (1923) Archaeology of the Cambridge area p. 257f.
CAS Proceedings 1968 has an article on S-shaped Anglo-Saxon brooches and mentions a pair from Haslingfield.
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