Oxford Archaeology (OA) carried out a series of investigations between 2007 and 2016. This comprised an excavation undertaken in 2007 and 2010-12 across the main areas of the MDA (AYLBER07 and AYLBER10), a watching brief in 2012/13, which monitored development work in the same area (also under code AYLBER10), an excavation in 2013 along the Western Link Road (again AYLBER10), an excavation at the District Centre site in 2014 (AYLBER14), and, most recently, excavation in 2016 west of Paradise Orchard strip, map and sample (SMS) excavation area (AYLBER16). Archaeological investigations were conducted by Oxford Archaeology to the north-west of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire between 2007 and 2016 prior to the construction of housing and related infrastructure within the Berryfields Major Development Area. The fieldwork recovered evidence for human activity spanning the early Neolithic to the post-medieval period, with significant elements relating to a middle Iron Age settlement and the agricultural hinterland of the nucleated Roman settlement of Fleet Marston situated on the major Roman road of Akeman Street. A pit dated to the early Neolithic period was one of the earliest features on the site. Radiocarbon dating of hazelnut shells recovered from the feature shows it to be one of the earliest Neolithic features in the region. The feature fits the general pattern of intermittent occupation by people moving across the landscape, possibly following the course of the River Thame. An enclosure relates to limited occupation during the middle Bronze Age, while funerary activity of the same period is represented by two ring ditches, likely to be the remains of disturbed barrows. A pit alignment, a form of territorial boundary, was established between the late Bronze Age and the middle Iron Age and was succeeded by a boundary ditch. This was in turn replaced by a trackway, probably in the late Iron Age, which survived into the initial decades of the Roman period before being abandoned. The middle Iron Age settlement was characterised by roundhouses, enclosures and four-poster structures. The settlement's economy was mixed, with both arable and pastoral farming practised, but the emphasis appears to have been on grazing and the rearing of livestock. Cattle, sheep and horses were the dominant species represented, the last recorded in sufficient quantity to suggest a specialist horse farming element, perhaps involving trading or ranching and exploiting the location of ...