Research
Evidence tools for development archaeology
Public, traceable resources designed to help researchers and development teams find the primary record before making a site-specific decision.
Open resource
Cambridgeshire Development Archaeology Evidence Atlas
An audited discovery layer over selected public archaeological report metadata. It makes provenance, licence limits and spatial confidence visible rather than silently turning an incomplete catalogue into a risk map.
Version 0.2.0 · data cutoff 2026-09-30
11 source records with transparent spatial coverage →
Search, filter, map source-supplied grid references, inspect the data-quality limits and download the derived discovery index.
Evidence gateway
Choose the evidence for the question
Find a published report
Search the atlas’s selected metadata and follow the original catalogue record or DOI. Check authors, dates, coverage and licence on the source.
Search the catalogue →Understand the evidence request
For a planning submission or live condition, an official HER search and adviser’s brief answer a different question from a public report index.
HER and design-brief guidance →Inspect and reuse the index
Field definitions, provenance and release files expose the limits of the discovery sample. The source investigations are not CDA case studies.
Full field dictionary →Project review
Need evidence for a live development decision?
The research tools on this site help you find public context. They do not replace a CHER search, an approved brief or a site-specific archaeological assessment.