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Suffolk HER Number (Pref. Ref.):SUY 058
Unique number (MonUID):MSF20567
Type of Record:Monument
Parish:SUDBURY, BABERGH, SUFFOLK
NGR:TL 87 41

Summary

Two evaluation trenches across defensive town ditch, c.13m wide & 3.4m deep. Monitoring on same site in 2004.

Monument Types

  • WELL? (Unknown date)
  • DITCH (Late Saxon to Medieval - 850 AD to 1539 AD)
  • TOWN DEFENCES (Late Saxon to Medieval - 850 AD to 1539 AD)
  • POST HOLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • PIT (Post Medieval - 1801 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • POTTERY; CLAY (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • POTTERY; CLAY (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)
  • ANIMAL REMAINS; BONE (Late Saxon to Post Medieval - 850 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POTTERY ST NEOTS; CLAY (Late Saxon to Medieval - 850 AD to 1300 AD)
  • POTTERY THETFORD; CLAY (Late Saxon to Medieval - 850 AD to 1100 AD)
  • POTTERY; CLAY (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1700 AD)
  • SLAG; IRON (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status: None recorded

Description

2002: Two evaluation trenches across defensive town ditch, c.13m wide & 3.4m deep. Possible EMed pottery from upper layers (S1).
2003: Monitoring following evaluation revealed and plotted part of the Saxon town defences of Sudbury, which appears to have been finally backfilled in the C12/C13. Small amount of residual(?) IA (probably) or ESax pottery in primary ditch fill (S2).
A documentary survey was also undertaken by A M Breen (S2).
Monitoring of the same site during May 2004 during excavation of foundations for terraced houses revealed no significant archaeological deposits although a brick lined well, c.8.2m deep was identified (S3).

Sources

S1Unpublished document: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. Monitoring Report. Sommers, M., SCCAS. 2004/89, June 2004. (SSF50119)
S1Source Checked: Personal communication. SCCAS, Sommers M, email message to Pendleton C, May 2002 (SSF50082)
R1Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Evaluation Report. SCCAS, Sommers, No 2002/57, 2002 (SSF50056)
M1Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish file. (S1)(S2) (SSF50072)
S2Unpublished document: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. Monitoring Report. SCCAS, Sommers M, No 2003/65, May 2003 (SSF50119)

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