Gill, D. (2009). Abbey Gardens Low Impact Evaluation (Summary Report) BSE 332. Ipswich: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1007132. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Abbey Gardens Low Impact Evaluation (Summary Report) BSE 332
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Series:		 Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 An archaeological assessment was undertaken within the Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds. The work was concentrated mainly within the flood plain of the River Lark in the 'events area' and the playground. The assessment was designed to inform a Garden Management Plan for future applications for Scheduled Ancient Monument Consent work and an Archaeological Conservation Plan. The investigative work included topographic and geophysical surveys, palaeo-environmental assessment and test-pitting. The survey work confirmed that archaeological deposits lay close to the current surface with layers of rubble encountered at depths of 100-250mm. In the main these were post-dissolution deposits associated with the post-medieval use of the gardens but structural remains of the Abbey including a bonded flint wall and a robbed wall trench (both also identified in the geophysics survey) were also found. The medieval ground level and finds-rich occupation debris deposits were recorded and evidence of the secondary channel, or mill-leat which formerly ran alongside the river and which is shown on early maps of the Abbey, was identified as both a landscape and archaeological feature. The palaeo-environmental assessment identified well preserved pollen and organic deposits within the floodplain. These provided reliable radio-carbon dates from the Neolithic (2700-2900BC), Middle Saxon (C7th-8th) and early Medieval periods (C11th-12th). Pollen samples indicate the site was open sedge fen prior to the foundation of the abbey and the distribution of the peat showed a river course that fluctuated within the flood plain. Peat deposits sampled from the mill-leat close to the site of the putative mill (as shown on A.B Whittingham's conjectural plan of the Abbey) dated to C11th-12th and produced abundant cereal pollen demonstrating that crop processing had occurred close by.
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Author:		 David Gill
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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 332 Abbey Garden Management Plan Assesment
Parish: BURY ST EDMUNDS
District: West Suffolk
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Grid Reference: 585740, 264250 (Easting, Northing)
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MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CERAMIC (Object England)
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MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) Footing (Monus)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) Spread (Monus)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) Wall Remains (Monus)
TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEY (Event)
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ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING (Event)
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OASIS Id: suffolkc1-62625
OBIB: 2009/136
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Note:		 A4, spiral bound, white cover (also available as PDF).
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Created Date:		 24 Nov 2016