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Buckden Roundabout
February 2020
Sport
Buckden Junior Football Club
2020 has started for us as 2019 ended,
with yet more rain, our home pitches
continuing to suffer and some post-
poned matches. We have managed to
get some games played at the nearby
all weather 3G pitches, but we are look-
ing forward to a drier spring to help us
get our fixtures played!
BJFC Club Merchandise
Don’t forget you can still purchase brand new BJFC
merchandise.
•
Woolly Hats £6
•
Snoods
£6.50
•
Travel Mugs £5.99
A reduction of 50p per drink purchased from the tea bar will
be made when using one of our travel mugs.
Merchandise is available to purchase from our tea bar every
Saturday or by speaking to a member of our committee or
team managers.
Club Shop – now live!
As well as the merchandise mentioned above, we now have an
online club shop as well. Scarves, gloves, jumpers and coats
can all be purchased online – visit
www.chromasport.co.uk/
shop/buckden-juniors-fc
to order.
Dribblers and Development sessions
Our Dribblers sessions are now split into two - older dribblers
(school year 1) on a Saturday 9am – 10am and our younger
dribblers (age 3 and above) now on a Sunday at the same time.
Our Development Sessions run on a Sunday from 9am – 10am.
The aim of these sessions is to give children aged U7-U10
(school years 2-5) a chance to learn the skills they need to as-
sist them in the future with finding a team – please contact us
for more details.
Tea Bar
Don’t forget our tea bar runs every Saturday – hot and cold
drinks, bacon and sausage rolls from 9am each week.
For more information on the club, joining a team or the com-
mittee please contact our Chairman Michael Lander via
bjfc-
chairman@hotmail.com
.
Buckden Bowls Club
Contact Numbers
Club Sec.
Ladies Sec.
Monthly Draw
Brian Moore
Eileen Linane
Jane Price
01480 812112
07976 953817 01480 812141
Sunday 12
th
July – Kimbolton Country Fayre & Classic Car Show
A spectacular family event. This year including the Imps Motor-
cycle Display Team and the Welsh Axemen Lumberjack Sports
Team, alongside over 800 Classic cars, 50+ stalls, Lindy Hop
Dancers, Millers Ark Animals and much more!
www.kimboltoncountryfayre.com
https://www.facebook.com/kimboltonfayre/
Roman Buckden
Did you know traces of Roman settlement have been found all
over Buckden?
Roman pottery has been dug up during gravel extraction, in the
garden of the Red House in 1934, and in Perry Road when the
High Street bypass was built.
There are rumours that during the building of houses in the
area of the village called the Hoo (an Anglo-Saxon word for
burial ground) cremation burials were discovered, which would
indicate a substantial early settlement.
A formal excavation just east of Stirtloe was carried out in
1941. Finds included bones, pottery shards, a corroded
spearhead, millstone fragments and, surprisingly, an elephant
tooth (possibly a souvenir). The conclusion was that there had
been a settlement there, probably as early as the second cen-
tury AD.
Forty years later, in the summer of 1982, a dig was carried out
east of Buckden Towers, following some surface finds. It
yielded unmistakable evidence of a Roman villa right in the
middle of what became Buckden village: tesserae from a floor
mosaic, fragments of a
hypocaust tile (a hollow
brick for underfloor
central heating), a
scatter of plaster from
the walls, pottery shards
and part of a quern for
grinding corn.
The site was too small to
gain an impression of
the size of the villa, but
it was certainly the
property of a wealthy
person. It was most
likely a farmhouse
managing an estate
which may well have
had the same
boundaries as our
current parish. It may have been occupied through to the end
of the period of Roman settlement in 410 AD.
From Buckden A Huntingdonshire Village, Mike Storey (Ed.),
2010