

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Digging Deeper: Initial results from the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Excavations by Simon Markus
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 13 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Between July 2022 and June 2024 MOLA undertook excavations ahead of construction of the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvement Scheme. The sites revealed information about how Iron Age pioneers ventured into the claylands of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to expand their settlements, and how they developed into the Roman period and beyond.

https://www.mola.org.uk/discoveries/commercial-projects/a428-black-cat-caxton-gibbet/archaeology-a428

Simon Markus is a senior project manager at Museum of London Archaeology based in Northampton. He has worked on a wide variety of sites including Overstone and the Huntingdon to Cambridge improvement works about which he gave an entertaining and informative lecture to the Society.

http://www.mola.org.uk

Doors open at 7pm - Lecture starts at 7.30pm
Door Charge of £1 for members, £5 for non-members
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Coventry
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Friends Meeting House, Hill Street, Coventry, CV1 4AN
- **lat**: 52.40976
- **long**: -1.51699
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- **organizer**: Coventry & District Archaeological Society (https://allevents.in/org/coventry-and-district-archaeological-society/22117665)

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