Craven, J. A. (2014). Manson House, Bury St Edmunds, BSE 381. Ipswich: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1030134. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Manson House, Bury St Edmunds, BSE 381
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Series:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 Excavation and monitoring in advance of residential development on land to the rear of Manson House, Northgate Street, identified significant evidence of medieval domestic occupation and domestic activities, or small-scale craft working and manufacture to the rear of shop fronts, relating to food production such as baking or brewing during the 12th-14th centuries. The boundaries of the modern plot and road layout as a whole are likely to date back to the early medieval period, when the plot appears to have been open ground and likely bordered by roadside ditches. No firm evidence of sub-division of the plot was identified but it probably consisted of a variety of individual yards and gardens. Archaeological features chiefly consisted of a dense collection of intercutting miscellaneous pits, indicating continuous activity throughout the medieval period. Although the pits' original function has not been defined they appear to have eventually been used for casual domestic rubbish disposal, with the finds assemblages being typical of the medieval town. Other significant features consisted of three circular clay-built ovens, similar to examples seen elsewhere in the town, which have been interpreted as grain dryers. There is a significant decline in features towards the end of the medieval and/or into the post-medieval periods, with no clear evidence for new structures, and an associated complete absence of late medieval and post-medieval ceramics. This suggests that although the site remained within the urban core there was a strong change in the nature of occupation and use of the plot as a whole. By the mid-18th century the area is depicted as open gardens or orchards on a map of the town by Thomas Warren, further indicating that the use of the plots as working yards appears to have ceased.
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Author:		 J A Craven
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Publisher:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2014
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Site: BSE 381 Manson House, Bury St Edmunds
County: Suffolk
District: West Suffolk
Parish: BURY ST EDMUNDS
Country: England
Grid Reference: 585630, 264550 (Easting, Northing)
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MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FLOOR TILE (Object England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) ROOF TILE (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) OVEN (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
EXCAVATION (Event)
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OASIS Id: suffolkc1-162463
OBIB: SCCAS Report No. 2013/070
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Note:		 SCCAS excavation grey lit report
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Created Date:		 01 Feb 2018