This weekend the Whittlesford Society carried out a dig at a site to the east of the village church, under the supervision of local resident and professional archeologist Mark Hinman. This was on the basis of a geophysics survey carried out by Thriplow History Society last year which showed some ditches that looked promising.
The results of the dig, artefacts demonstrating a settlement dating back to the Iron Age, and through Saxon times, will be sorted through and cleaned at premises at Pampisford. Soil discolouration at the bottom of the trench that was dug 
showed where people were cooking some 2,500 years ago. Which is pretty amazing.
On the basis of what has been found, the next step would be to consider a bid to fund a more extensive and professional dig at the site, given what has been discovered about the site.
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