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Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 83, 1-61, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and early Anglo-Saxon remains were excavated and recorded during construction of the Ashby Folville to Thurcaston gas pipeline. The earlier prehistoric sites were described in the first part of this article; this part covers three sites with Roman remains, two of which also had evidence of Iron Age activity. These two sites, between Gaddesby and Queniborough, both had linear features and pits; the more westerly of the two also had evidence of a trackway and a single inhumation burial. The third site, between Rearsby and East Goscote, was particularly notable as it contained a 7m-deep stone-lined Roman well, which was fully excavated.

Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 81, 1-33, A multiple boundary ditch and double pit alignment were located on the route of the Oakham bypass construction which provided the opportunity for the investigation of these remains. These were extensively excavated in an attempt to clarify the function, significance and dating of the features. The results of the excavations are described and evidence for the dating, form, function and landscape setting of the monuments is discussed.

Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 100, 7-45, The findings are outlined from the excavation of a later Bronze Age settlement located well 'inland' ' respectively, 5 and 7km away from the Ouse and Cam River Valleys, and 6km back from the fen-edge at Longstanton, where it straddled the flanks of a gravel ridge running across the Cambridgeshire clay plain. While the site offers few major insights concerning the periods settlement generally, it nevertheless reflects upon a number of crucial themes: the nature/chronology of heavy land colonisation and when its pioneering occurred, the key role of water provisioning and, due to localised depositional survival, middening dynamics. As regards the latter, the site generated one of the regions largest later Bronze Age ceramic assemblages and, through waterlogged preservation of its deep-cut pit-wells, yielded an important group of wooden artefacts and other finds.