Cambria Farm

Cambria Farm is the site of a Bronze, Iron Age, Roman rural settlement, between Ruishton and Taunton, Somerset, England.

Cambria Farm
Location of Cambria Farm in Somerset
Locationbetween Ruishton and Taunton, Somerset, England
Coordinates51°01′01″N 3°03′33″W
Built1000 BC to 400 AD

A survey of the site was carried by Context One in 2007 out prior to the construction of a Park and ride close to Junction 25 of the M5 motorway.[1] In early 2009 further exploration and excavation was carried out. It uncovered Bronze Age burnt mounds,[2] Middle Bronze Age and Late Iron Age roundhouses, and a field system established in the late Iron Age that remained in use until the 3rd or 4th century AD.[3]

The evidence of human occupation was dated as between 1500 BC to 400 AD.[4] The buildings included three possible rectilinear post-built structures and at least five roundhouses, one of which was 17 metres (56 ft) in diameter. A Roman field system and small inhumation cemetery containing 30 burials dating from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD was also discovered.[5]

Finds from the site include a pair of iron shears, iron spear tips, animal bones, flint tools, loom weights, Iron Age and Roman brooches and Roman coins. They will be displayed in the Museum of Somerset.[6] Examples of Glastonbury type pottery,[7] and three Iron Age spearheads were also found.[8]

References
  1. "Land at Cambria Farm, Taunton, Somerset. An Archaeological Field Evaluation" (PDF). Somerset County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 June 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  2. "Exciting Iron Age finds at proposed Somerset park-and-ride site". Western Daily Press. This is Bristol. Archived from the original on 2012-09-20. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  3. "Cambria Farm". Megalithic Portal. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  4. "Archaeologists Unearth Iron Age Settlement During Dig In Taunton". Culture 24. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  5. "Excavation (2008-9), Cambria Farm, Taunton". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  6. "Somerset Heritage Service Newsletter. Issue 5" (PDF). Somerset County Council. January 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  7. "Bronze Age sauna discovered on site earmarked for park and ride scheme". The Telegraph. 24 March 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  8. "Roman finds at park-and-ride site". BBC. 23 March 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
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