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Heard, K. (2021). Land at Beyton Road, Thurston, Suffolk: Archive Report. ASE/UCL. https://doi.org/10.5284/1094396.
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| HEARD, K. (2021) Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation Land at Beyton Road Thurston Suffolk. Archaeology South East | |||
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| Description | Archaeology South-East (ASE), the contracting division of the Centre for Applied Archaeology (CAA), Institute of Archaeology (IoA), University College London (UCL) was commissioned by RPS Consulting Services to conduct a trial-trench evaluation and subsequent small excavation on land at Beyton Road, Thurston, Suffolk. The fieldwork was carried out as a condition attached to outline planning consent for a proposed housing-led development and was the second phase of archaeological fieldwork on the site, having been preceded by a geophysical survey. Sixty-eight evaluation trenches were excavated across the 7.4ha site, providing a sample of the entire site and targeting selected geophysical anomalies. The subsequent mitigation excavation area measured 370sq m, expanding upon one of the evaluation trenches in the south of the site. Archaeological features and deposits of prehistoric to modern date were identified in ten evaluation trenches, mainly in the central and eastern parts of the site, and in the subsequent excavation area. A small assemblage of flint debitage was recovered from an accumulation of soil in a natural depression. The flint ranges in date from the Neolithic to the later prehistoric period. Lesser amounts of struck/worked flint (including a core, a blade and a bladelet of probable Mesolithic/Early Neolithic date) were collected from the ploughsoil and as residual finds in post-medieval features. Two small pits (or possible natural features) each produced a single undiagnostic flint flake, both of which were poorly stratified surface finds. Post-medieval features consisted of a ditch (corresponding to a field boundary shown on early 19th-century maps), and an infilled gravel pit. Five small pits were either modern or undated. |
