Site Event/Activity record ESF19986 - Evaluation - Adastral Park, Martlesham

This large-scale evaluation revealed - in relation to the size of the area under investigation - scant archaeological deposits and features. Those identified were primarily located in Area D, with a small number of other features appearing in all areas, with the exception of Area B, Area C2 and Area F, which contained none. A small number of modern intrusions were also observed across the site, including possible post-medieval quarrying and modern military and waste pits. The archaeology of Area D was late Iron Age to early Roman, although a large ditch that ran across the area may be a medieval field boundary. As part of the evaluation programme, further trial trenching was undertaken in Bretts Quarry on an area which was thought to contain tumuli. No evidence for the presence of the double burial mound was found, although a narrow ditch of modern origin was. At the request of John Ette, English Heritage Regional Inspector, additional stripping around the known burial mound on Grainger (SAM 21267) was undertaken, but no evidence for 'satellite' cremations or Anglo-Saxon burials that are sometimes associated with Bronze Age burial mounds such as this was identified. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous Yes, Future Not known Associated Identifiers: HER event no. MRM140 HER event no. WLD025 NMR No. 1514269 Project Type: Field evaluation Development Type: Housing estate Methods and Techniques: Sample Trenches Position in the Planning Process: Pre-application Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Site status: None Current Land use: Cultivated Land 3 - Operations to a depth more than 0.25m Monument Type(s)/Period(s): DITCHES Late Iron Age , PIT Early Bronze Age Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): FLINT Early Bronze Age , POTTERY Late Iron Age PROJECT LOCATION Area 48.00 Hectares Grid Reference: TM25614489 Point Height 14.00 - 26.00 metres PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, Field Team Director/Manager: Rhodri Gardner Supervisor: Mo Muldowney DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR Contents: none Media: Database, Images raster / digital photography, Images vector, Moving image, Survey, Text PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR Contents: none Media: Aerial Photograph, Context sheet, Correspondence, Drawing, Map, Photograph, Plan, Report, Section, Survey, Unpublished Text PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR Contents: Ceramics, Environmental, Glass, Metal, Worked stone/lithics BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Land Adjacent to Adastral Park, Martlesham, Ipswich Author(s)/Editor(s): Muldowney, M Other Bibliographic Details: 2008/269 Date: 2009 Issuer/Publisher: Suffolk County Council Place of Issue or Publication: Bury St Edmunds Description: A4, ring bound document, white paper. colour illustrations. 63 pages