Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation of the Square Enclosure at Aldham Mill Hill, Hadleigh, Suffolk, March 2019
Archaeology South-East, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5284/1105636. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
![Trench photo showing 003 cutting Ditch 27 [27/003]](images/190055_HAD160_Eval_Photo-0005.jpg)
This collection comprises images, a site plan, spreadsheets and a survey statement from the second phase of an archaeological evaluation of Land off Aldham Mill Hill, Hadleigh, Suffolk undertaken by Archaeology South-East in March 2019.
Previous geophysical survey of the site detected a range of anomalies of possible or probable archaeological origin. Subsequent trial-trench evaluation, in April 2018, established the presence of a possible Mesolithic or Neolithic pit, several Bronze Age to Early Iron Age monuments and an extensive Roman enclosure and trackway.
The second phase of evaluation, comprising the investigation of three additional trenches, targeted the remains of the possible Early/Middle Iron Age square enclosure. This phase of evaluation provided a better understanding of the form and dimensions of the enclosure ditch, as well as its stratigraphic relationship with a Late Roman ditch. No additional secure dating evidence and no clear indication of the function of the square enclosure, however, was identified. Three small pits/postholes were encountered near the centre of the enclosure, though two were undated and the third was of Late Roman date. A large pit/hollow outside the square enclosure was also of Late Roman date.
