Site Event/Activity record ESF20745 - Evaluation, Land of Cotton Lane, Bury St Edmunds

Eight machine excavated trenches were dug across the site of a proposed housing development off Cotton Lane to a depth of approx 0.4-1.75m. This exposed evidence of widespread quarrying during the Med period almost certainly of gravel from the river terrace exposed by a series of machine excavated trenches across the site of a proposed housing development off Cotton Lane. These areas were then used to dump substantial amounts of waste from the medieval town and Abbey(?). The corner of a building,constructed with flint and mortar foundations and including a buttress, was also uncovered on the edge of the floodplain. Close to this building and elsewhere on the site were elements of a complex network of ditches which seem to have been variously in use from the medieval period to the present (S1).