Site Event/Activity record ESF18797 - Evaluation and excavation, the Sandpits, Lakenheath, 2002

Nineteen evaluation trenches totalling 812m length were excavated in advance of housing development, identifying an area of prehistoric activity in the centre of the site (trenches 7, 9 and 17). An excavation of 1570sq m was undertaken revealing a buried soil horizon which may be the remnants of an Early Bronze Age burial mound. The site appears to be a small Bronze Age/Iron Age funerary site, containing one EBA inhumation and at least nine cremations, amidst a scatter of undated pits. One cremation was contained in an Early Bronze Age collared urn, two were radiocarbon dated to the Late Bronze Age, and the remainder were mid-late Iron Age. A large medieval pit was also found.