Meredith, J. (2012). FRS 001 River Alde Saxon Heritage Project, Barbers Point (Excavations 2010). Ipswich: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1031402. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 FRS 001 River Alde Saxon Heritage Project, Barbers Point (Excavations 2010)
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Series:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service unpublished report series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:		 The 2010 excavations were designed to further investigate a partly revealed post-hole structure and to see if the burials encountered in previous excavations continued to the north. An area of approximately 40m by 25m was machine stripped of topsoil and hand-dug targeted trenches were excavated within this area. The thick overlying layer (containing abundant quantities of Roman pottery) was sieved for finds and the underlying features excavated and recorded. Despite the abundance of Roman finds surviving, features of this period were very sparse with only a few pits revealed. Middle Saxon remains were much more apparent, with evidence for at least two post-hole structures and a further nine graves identified. Six of these graves held surviving human bone which has been radiocarbon dated to the 7th and early 8th centuries AD. Burials within settlements are characteristic of the Christian conversion period, but the burial rite was very variable with some individuals placed within hollowed-out tree-trunks and coffins, one within a shroud, while others had stones placed under their bodies. The inner of the two large Middle Saxon enclosure ditches was exposed and this was excavated in two places, showing that it had a width of 3.5m and a depth of 1.5m. This ditch cut at right-angles a smaller, internal ditch, also dated to the Middle Saxon period. This smaller ditch was cut by one of the outlying graves, suggesting a complex arrangement of changes and expansion of the settlement enclosure.
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Author:		 Jezz Meredith
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Publisher:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2012
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Site: FRS 001 Barbers Point, River Alde Saxon Heritage Project
County: Suffolk
District: Suffolk Coastal
Parish: FRISTON
Country: England
Grid Reference: 643210, 257290 (Easting, Northing)
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EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) INHUMATION (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) POST HOLE (Monument Type England)
EXCAVATION (Event)
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OASIS Id: suffolkc1-123669
OBIB: 2012/036
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Created Date:		 01 Feb 2018