Site Event/Activity record ESF21011 - Excavation, Cedars Park, Stowmarket to Baylham Pumping Station, Anglian Water pipeline (phase 2)

Field-walking produced insignificant amounts of prehistoric worked flint and medieval pottery. A subsequent evaluation revealed two post-medieval ditches. Coddenham (CDD 068) An excavation was carried out within Scheduled Ancient Monument SF 89 (the Roman settlement of Combretovium) with the following principal results. Prehistoric: residual Mesolithic and earlier Neolithic worked flints; two adjacent later Neolithic pits and another pit of possible later Neolithic / earlier Bronze Age date. Possibly Roman: A probable hollow-way and a ditch (the latter potentially on the same alignment as Roman road BRK 004). The ditch contained an undated inhumation. Anglo-Saxon: Small SFB and an adjacent pit; possibly two nearby cooking pits. Medieval: At least one 11th-13th century ditch; medieval pottery also from the upper fills of the (possibly Roman) hollow-way and the ditch containing an inhumation. Baylham (BAY 037) An excavation was carried out adjacent to a postulated Bronze Age barrow cemetery, with the following principal results: Prehistoric: Pit contained flint-working debitage of probable Mesolithic / earlier Neolithic date; part of a large ring ditch (BAY 007) associated with the postulated barrow cemetery is assumed to have been of later Neolithic or Bronze Age date; ditches forming part of a prehistoric (or later) field system. Roman: A row of ten pits - possibly post pits for a large timber building, or perhaps planting holes. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous Yes, Future No Associated Identifiers: HER event no. BAY 037 HER event no. CDD 068 HER event no. CRM 058 HER event no. CRP 009 HER event no. CRP 010 OASIS form ID suffolkc1-36016 NMR No. 1544313 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: Aerial Photography - interpretation, Full excavation, Part Excavation, Systematic Field Walking, Test-Pit Survey Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Monument Type(s)/Period(s): PIT Late Neolithic, PIT Early Bronze Age , PIT Roman, RING DITCH Late Prehistoric, BUILDING Early Medieval , PIT Early Medieval , DITCH Roman, BURIAL Uncertain Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): POTTERY Late Neolithic, POTTERY Early Bronze Age , WORKED FLINT Mesolithic, WORKED FLINT Neolithic, POTTERY Roman, POTTERY Early Medieval PROJECT LOCATION Area 40000.00 Square metres Grid References: TM06545812 Point, TM11695210 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: BAY 037 CDD 068 CRM 058 Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Environmental, Glass, Human Bones, Metal, Stratigraphic, Survey, Worked stone/lithics Media: Database, Geophysics, Images raster / digital photography, Images vector, Survey, Text PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: BAY 037 CDD 068 CRM 058 Contents: Stratigraphic Media: Context sheet, Photograph, Plan, Report, Section PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: BAY 037 CDD 068 CRM 058 Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Environmental, Glass, Human Bones, Metal, Worked stone/lithics BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Post-excavation assessment: Cedars Park, Stowmarket to Baylham Pumping Station, Anglian Water pipeline (phase 2) Author(s)/Editor(s): Heard, K Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS report number 2009/269 Date: 2011 Issuer/Publisher: Suffolk County Council Place of Issue or Publication: Ipswich Description: Volume 1 (Report): A4, 114 pages, wire bound Volume 2 (Appendices): A4 ,166 pages, wire bound