Meredith, J. (2020). Gainsborough's House Museum: post-excavation assessment and updated project design. Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1088862. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Gainsborough's House Museum: post-excavation assessment and updated project design
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 A programme of archaeological investigation was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology in December 2019 and January 2020 in advance of an extension to Gainsborough's House Museum in Sudbury. The western edge of the site revealed a complex and deep series of intercutting pits dating from the Late Saxon to the medieval period. The earlier pits contained a Sudbury variant of Thetford ware pottery, including some examples of kiln spoilt vessels ('wasters'). Wasters, loomweight fragments, smithing hearth bases and hammer scale all point to industrial activity in the vicinity. Good bone preservation resulted in a large recovered animal bone assemblage, with some wild species represented, and a small number of worked bone fragments were found including a needle and a decorated plate. Other periods represented on site include a large, steep-sided rectangular pit of likely Early Saxon (or possibly Iron Age) date. Of particular interest was a set of horse skulls recovered from the fill. A radiocarbon date is required to determine the date of this feature. Two prehistoric pits were also recorded.
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Author:		 J Meredith
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2020
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Site: Gainsborough's House Museum
County: Suffolk
District: Babergh
Parish: SUDBURY
Country: England
Grid Reference: 587230, 241320 (Easting, Northing)
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EXCAVATION (Event)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) WORKED BONE (Find)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) POT (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) POT (Object England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) QUERN (Object England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-364957
OBIB: SU0056_1
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Note:		 Summary assessment report with full finds reports in appendices
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Created Date:		 29 Oct 2021