Site Event/Activity record ESF19940 - Street Farm Barn, Tunstall

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Location

Location TUN 027, Street Farm Barn, School Road, Tunstall
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.

Map

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)

  • --- Unpublished document: Heard, K.. 2008. Assessment report. Tunstall: Street Farm Barn, School Road (TUN 027).

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Street Farm Barn (Med) (Monument)

Record last edited

Mar 28 2011 12:18PM

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