This collection comprises images, reports, and site records from an archaeological excavation carried out by Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd at Old Stowmarket Road, Woolpit between June and July 2020.

An archaeological excavation was carried out on land south of Old Stowmarket Road, Woolpit, following a geophysical survey and two phases of trial trench evaluation. The fieldwork comprised three separate excavation areas, all on the higher ground in the south of the development site and targeted on prehistoric archaeological remains identified by the evaluation.

Area 1 contained three small pits with finds indicative of Middle Iron Age (c. 350-50 BC) occupation. Area 2 had a highly variable natural geology with numerous striations and lenses, some probably glacial in origin and others likely to be tree hollows. Some of these contained small amounts of Early Neolithic (c. 4000-3000 BC) pottery and/ or struck flint, which are likely to derive from surface scatters of occupation debris that were present on the prehistoric ground surface, some of which became incidentally incorporated into underlying hollows as they filled in. Area 3 revealed a few further Early Neolithic tree hollows and glacial features, but its principal interest was the exposure of an unusual rectangular/ sub-square ditched enclosure. This contained the poorly preserved crouched inhumation burial of a mature/ elderly adult male accompanied by an Early Bronze Age Beaker vessel.