Boulter, S. (2018). Land off Grove Hill, Belstead, Suffolk BSD 028 Archaeological Excavation Report. Needham Market: Suffolk Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1050763. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Land off Grove Hill, Belstead, Suffolk BSD 028 Archaeological Excavation Report
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Series:		 Suffolk Archaeology unpublished report series
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https://doi.org/10.5284/1050763
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 A relatively small area excavation of 2,256m2 was undertaken in advance of the construction of new dwellings on land off Grove Hill, Belstead in 2017. A previous phase of trenched evaluation had revealed features of Iron Age - earlier Roman date and the subsequent excavation confirmed this as the principal period of activity. The earliest evidence was a background scatter of worked flint potentially of Neolithic or Bronze Age date. However, the first incised feature potentially dated to the earlier/middle Iron Age, marking the beginning of a continuous phases of activity that extended into the 2nd century AD. The deposits were essentially limited to ditches/gullies, relating to landscape management, probably for arable fields and stock control, and pits. A group of small Iron Age features located at the northern end of the site were recorded as a possible roundhouse, although the evidence for this was not compelling. Given that no definite structural evidence was recorded, but the artefactual assemblage, particularly the ceramics and Roman CBM, was reasonably large, the site has been interpreted as lying within the area of a wider Roman farmstead, but marginally away from its main focus of occupation. Two post-medieval ditches appeared to have been redundant before the surveying of the 1st Edition OS map of the late 19th century.
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Author:		 Stuart Boulter ORCID icon
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Publisher:		 Suffolk Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2018
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Site: BSD 028 Land South of Grove Hill
County: Suffolk
District: Babergh
Parish: BELSTEAD
Country: England
Grid Reference: 613400, 241300 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) BRICK (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) BRICK (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) CERAMIC (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) COIN (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) FLUE TILE (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) IMBREX (Object England)
BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Object England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Object England)
NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) NAIL (Object England)
LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) QUERN (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) TEGULA (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) TILE (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) POST HOLE (Monument Type England)
EXCAVATION (Event)
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OASIS Id: suffolka1-290398
OBIB: 2017/109
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Note:		 An A4 report in house style, wire-comb bound and card covered.
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Created Date:		 31 Jan 2019