Site Event/Activity record ESF19940 - Street Farm Barn, Tunstall
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Location
Location | TUN 027, Street Farm Barn, School Road, Tunstall |
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Grid reference | Centred TM 3588 5512 (46m by 45m) |
Map sheet | TM35NE |
Civil Parish | TUNSTALL, SUFFOLK COASTAL, SUFFOLK |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service
Date
Not recorded.
Description
Residual sherds of late Saxon and early medieval pottery suggest activity on or close to the site during those periods. However, the earliest occupation of the site for which there is direct evidence dates to the 12-14th centuries when a small timber building (represented by a rectangular arrangement of five large postholes) was constructed. An adjacent row of three smaller postholes might be part of the same structure. Apart from a possible external hearth or fire pit and some shallow pits and postholes that might be contemporary with the medieval building there is no evidence for activity relating to the use of building; internal flooring and contemporary external surfaces have not survived. The building was located immediately north of an east-west ditch that silted up in the 13th-14th centuries. Another east-west ditch to the north of the building is undated but might have been contemporary with it; this suggests that the building occupied a plot of land measuring 21.5m north-south by at least 19m east-west. Later occupation of the site is represented by a large pit containing 16th-century pottery, building material and animal bones. An L-shaped ditch in the south-western part of the site is likely to have been part of a rectangular enclosure. The ditch was backfilled in the 16th-18th centuries. Despite its relatively late date there is no cartographic evidence for a boundary in this location on maps of the 18th-19th centuries.
Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes
Previous/Future Work: Previous Yes, Future No
Associated Identifiers:
HER event no. TUN 027
OASIS form ID suffolkc1-39510
Project Type: Recording project
Investigation Type: Open-area excavation
Reason for Investigation: Planning condition
Monument Type(s)/Period(s): HOUSE Medieval , DITCH Medieval , PIT Post Medieval
Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): POTTERY Medieval , POTTERY Post Medieval
PROJECT LOCATION
Area 377.00 Square metres
Grid Reference: TM35885511 Point
PROJECT CREATOR(S)
Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body
Design originator: Jess Tipper
Director/Manager: John Newman
Supervisor: Kieron Heard
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Recipient: Suffolk County SMR
ID: TUN 027
Contents: Ceramics, Environmental, Glass, Metal, Stratigraphic, Survey
Media: Database, Images raster / digital photography, Text
PAPER ARCHIVE
Recipient: Suffolk County SMR
ID: TUN 027
Contents: Environmental, Stratigraphic
Media: Context sheet, Plan, Report, Section
PHYSICAL ARCHIVE
Recipient: Suffolk County SMR
ID: TUN 027
Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Environmental, Glass, Metal
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript)
Title: Street Farm Barn, School Road, Tunstall, Suffolk: post-excavation assesment
Author(s)/Editor(s): Heard, K
Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS report number 2008/234
Date: 2009
Issuer/Publisher: SCCAS
Place of Issue or Publication: Ipswich
Description: A4, 58 pages, wire bound
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SSF52760 Unpublished document: Heard, K.. 2008. Assessment report. Tunstall: Street Farm Barn, School Road (TUN 027).
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- TUN 027 Street Farm Barn (Med) (Monument)
Record last edited
Mar 28 2011 12:18PM