Duffy, J. (2009). Athenaeum Toilets, The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds BSE 272. Ipswich: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1005155. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Athenaeum Toilets, The Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds BSE 272
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Series:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service unpublished report series
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https://doi.org/10.5284/1005155
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 The Athenaeum in Bury St Edmunds was created in the 18th century and onwards from an amalgamation of earlier structures. Excavation to a maximum sample depth of up to 0.8m behind it during redevelopment of the toilet block revealed post-medieval features and soil layers, including two wells. Interventions were not deep enough to penetrate medieval archaeology, although earlier deposits were identified. However, the building work exposed a timber framed jettied building frontage and this, along with an earlier stone vaulted cellar, was recorded. This gives evidence for the character of buildings which lined a former medieval lane or courtyard in the area now beneath the Athenaeum, depicted on Warren's map of 1747. These structures were probably an early encroachment onto the space of Angel Hill. The date of the archaeological assemblage is consistent with the change in use of the site in the late 18th or early 19th century and the animal bone, clay pipe, glass vessels and ceramics probably represents consumption related to the role of the buildings as an Assembly rooms.
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Author:		 J Duffy
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Publisher:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2009
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Site: BSE 272 Athenaeum Toilet Block
Parish: BURY ST EDMUNDS
District: West Suffolk
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Grid Reference: 585530, 264110 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CERAMIC (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) BUILDING (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CELLAR (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) LAYER (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) WALL (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) WALL (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) WELL (Monument Type England)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
TEST PIT (Event)
EXCAVATION (Event)
FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT) (Event)
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OASIS Id: suffolkc1-44428
OBIB: SCCAS Report No 2009/008
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Note:		 Spiral-bound A4 report, 14 leaves, cardboard covers. Colour images.
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Created Date:		 23 Nov 2016