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Fieldwalking near Bures St Mary, Suffolk, 2011 |
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Access Cambridge Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
Over a period of two days in March 2011 a programme of community field-walking was undertaken on a field known as Tile Field, southeast of Bures St Mary in Suffolk. The field-walking was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of the Managing a Masterpiece programme in the Stour Valley and supervised by Access Cambridge Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. With just one field walked, results are difficult to interpret, but they suggest that site was lightly used throughout most of the prehistoric period from the Mesolithic onwards, with a short episode of localised more intensive use in the late Bronze age or early Iron Age. From the Roman period the site appears to have been in use as arable, perhaps manured from a settlement nearby. Small amounts of pottery hint at some human presence in the Anglo-Saxon period, and possibly of a small farmstead or cottage just to the north of the site in the high medieval period up to about 1400 AD. Thereafter the site seems to been used as fields, with very little post-medieval or modern material recovered, apart from very large amounts of roof tile primarily found in one corner of the site, possibly brought there from elsewhere. |
Author: |
Carenza Lewis
C Ranson
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Publisher: |
Access Cambridge Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2012
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Tile Field |
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Suffolk |
District: |
Babergh |
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BURES ST MARY |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 592760, 234022 (Easting, Northing)
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accessca1-193384 |
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A4, 52 pages, comb bound
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Created Date: |
18 Aug 2017 |