Site Images and GIS Data from an Archaeological Evaluation at Gulpher Farm, Gulpher Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, May 2023

Cotswold Archaeology, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5284/1133359.

Introduction

Pit 407 and ditch 409 (foreground) looking NW
Pit 407 and ditch 409 (foreground) looking NW

This collection consists of site images and GIS data from an archaeological evaluation at Gulpher Farm, Gulpher Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk. The archaeological intervention was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology in May 2023. Four trenches were excavated; three trenches revealed archaeological features.

A small assemblage of prehistoric, Roman and medieval pottery, CBM, fired clay, and heat-affected flint was recovered. The pottery is highly fragmentary and no archaeological feature contained sufficient concentrations to confidently date the deposit or feature from which it was recovered. The proximity of a possible late prehistoric settlement to the south of the site may account for the residual presence of the prehistoric pottery assemblage in the subsoil, three ditches and one pit at the site. The parallel ditches revealed in Trench 1 and Trench 3 may represent part of a contemporary field system of post medieval date that was extant during the survey for the 1st edition Ordnance Survey (OS) map (1888 - 1913).