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26c Worlington Road, Barton Mills, Suffolk IP28 7DY |
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Archaeological Solutions Ltd unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
In July 2015 Archaeological Solutions Ltd (AS) carried out an archaeological evaluation 26c Worlington Road, Barton Mills, Suffolk IP28 7DY (NGR TL 706 742). The evaluation was undertaken in compliance with a planning condition attached to planning permission for the proposed construction of nine dwellings and offices (Forest Heath Planning Approval Ref. DC/14/2320/FUL), based on advice from Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service - Conservation Team (SCC AS-CT). A large prehistoric settlement site is located approximately 100m south-east of the site (Adams et al 2013; HER BTM 040). The excavation revealed five phases of prehistoric activity, spanning from the early Neolithic period to the late pre-Roman Iron Age. The principal period of activity was in the late Iron Age (100 BC - AD 43) including pit clusters, cremation burials, human and animal burials, and ditched boundaries. The Iron Age site would have occupied a slightly raised promontory surrounded by marshes and floodplain along the River Lark. The settlement appears to have shifted away shortly before the Roman conquest. A findspot of an Anglo-Saxon spearhead lies 50-100mm to the north east (HER MNL 061), and the site lies adjacent to the river Lark, heightening its potential as a topographically favourable location for early occupation and for the presence of preserved palaeoenvironmental remains. The evaluation recorded only two small gullies (F1003 and F1005), orientated east/west, and recorded in Trenches 4 and 5. Neither contained finds. Their function is uncertain. Both were orientated east/west and F1003 was likely a re-cut of F1005. |
Author: |
V Monahan
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Publisher: |
Archaeological Solutions Ltd
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2015
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Locations: |
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26c Worlington Road, Barton Mills, Suffolk |
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Suffolk |
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West Suffolk |
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BARTON MILLS |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 570600, 274200 (Easting, Northing)
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(Historic England Periods)
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GULLIES
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TRIAL TRENCH
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archaeol7-217603 |
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Archaeological Solutions Report No. 4899 |
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Created Date: |
01 Feb 2018 |