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EYE 045, Excavation and Monitoring at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, EYE |
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Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
A programme of works at the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Eye involved a significant reduction in the floor level of the north chancel aisle/chapel and the insertion of services in a trench excavated through the churchyard to the north of the church. Removal of the 19th/20th century organ platform and soil (representing the fill of earthcut graves) under the wooden choir room floor revealed six brick-lined graves, all of probable 18th or early 19th century date. As reduction of these structures down to the proposed development formation level would have required significant additional resources, a revised level was imposed which left the grave tops intact. Other features recorded included the footing and wall stub for the east wall of the nave north aisle that would have been dismantled when the north chancel chapel was added and the junction between the chancel chapel footing and that of the north nave wall. Monitoring of the service trench revealed evidence of burial in the churchyard in the form of disarticulate human bone and at least three intact burials along with a wall stub thought to represent an earlier phase of the churchyard wall and another piece of brickwork associated with the stepped entrance to the sacristy. |
Author: |
Stuart Boulter
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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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EYE 045, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Eye |
Parish: |
EYE |
District: |
Mid Suffolk |
County: |
Suffolk |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 614890, 273800 (Easting, Northing)
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OASIS Id: |
suffolkc1-63682 |
OBIB: |
SCCAS Rpt. No. 2009/211 |
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Unbound A4 sheets
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Created Date: |
23 Nov 2016 |