West Stow, Lackford Bridge, Suffolk
Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, 2007. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000250. How to cite using this DOI
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Primary contact
Dr
Jess
Tipper
Project Manager
Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
Bury Resource Centre
Hollow Road
Bury St Edmunds
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Resource identifiers
- ADS Collection: 727
- ALSF Project Number: 4770
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000250
- How to cite using this DOI
Overview
Rescue excavations at Lackford Bridge Quarry, West Stow, undertaken in the winter of 1978-9 by Suffolk Archaeological Unit in advance of sand and gravel quarrying, produced evidence of multiperiod settlement remains consisting of pits, post-holes, sunken-featured buildings, enclosure ditches and curvilinear gullies, dating to the early and late Neolithic, Iron Age and/or Roman and early Anglo- Saxon periods. The archive of records and finds was not completed after excavation due to lack of resources and only limited post-excavation assessment and analysis took place. The funding for both has been provided by the historic environment element of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, administered by English Heritage.
The Digital Archive
The digital archive currently consists of the following resources:
Project Report
- Tipper, J. 2007: West Stow, Lackford Bridge Quarry. Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. Report No. 2007/039.
The project report provides a contextual background to the study area and an introduction to the methodologies employed in the 1978-9 excavations. This is followed by intepretation and phasing of the archaeological features. The report is accompanied by a full finds assessment, including analysis of ceramic forms and environmental evidence.
Project Database
The project database includes context and small finds indices along with specialist finds data, a list of tables is outlined below. All tables are available to download here along with detailed documentation - supplied by the depositor - to allow the data to be re-used.
| Table Name | Description |
|---|---|
| WSW 030 Bulk Finds | Archive assessment table: all finds, listed by context. |
| WSW 030 CMB | Archive assessment table: Ceramic Building Material, listed by context. |
| WSW 030 Context Record | Archive context record generated from original context record, plans and sections. |
| WSW 030 Early Anglo-Saxon pottery | Archive assessment table: Anglo-Saxon pottery, listed by context. |
| WSW 030 Faunal measurements from context 0001 | Archive assessment table: faunal measurements from context 01. |
| WSW 030 Faunal measurements by context | Archive assessment table: faunal measurements, listed by context. |
| WSW 030 Fired Clay | Archive assessment table: fired clay, listed by context. |
| WSW 030 Flint by context | Archive assessment table: flint, listed by context. |
| WSW 030 Flint categories | Archive assessment table: list of flint categories used in table Flint by context. |
| WSW 030 Flint types | Archive assessment table: description of flint types. |
| WSW 030 Late Iron Age and Roman pottery | Archive assessment table: Late Iron Age and Roman pottery, listed by pottery type. |
| WSW 030 Prehistoric Pottery | Archive assessment table: Prehistoric pottery, listed by context. |
| WSW 030 Small finds | Archive assessment table: flint, listed by context. |
Environmental Remains
A selection of spreadsheets containing the palaeo-environmental results from several key contexts are available to download as CSV files here.
