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Fieldwalking at Snape, Suffolk, February 2014 |
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Access Cambridge Archaeology unpublished report series
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Over a period of one day in February 2015 a programme of community field-walking was undertaken on a field west of the village of Snape in Suffolk. The field-walking was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of the Touching the Tide programme along the Suffolk coast and enabled around 20 local residents and volunteers living in the surrounding area to take part in the field-walking which was supervised by Access Cambridge Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and directed by Dr Carenza Lewis. With just one field walked, results are difficult to interpret, but they suggest that site was lightly used throughout most of the prehistoric period, possibly from the Neolithic onwards. In the Roman period small numbers of shreds suggest that the site may have been in use as arable. No material of Anglo-Saxon date was recovered despite the presence of excavated features of 5th - 9th century date discovered in the adjacent field prior to development. In the high medieval period small amounts of pottery hint at some human presence, mostly bot indicative of anything more intensive that arable manuring, although a slight concentration in the north of the field hints at the possibility of some more intensive use here, perhaps related to habitation. Thereafter the site seems to have been used as fields, with modest amounts of post-medieval or modern material recovered, which have probable been derived from the settlement to the east along the present village street. |
Author: |
Carenza Lewis
C Ranson
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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: |
2015
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Snape |
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Suffolk |
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Suffolk Coastal |
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SNAPE |
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England |
Grid Reference: 639323, 258575 (Easting, Northing)
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accessca1-235159 |
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A4, 50 pages, double sided
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02 Feb 2018 |