Site Event/Activity record ESF21818 - Evaluation and Monitoring, Mill Farm, Norton

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Location

Location Mill Farm
Grid reference Centred TL 9599 6573 (51m by 58m)
Map sheet TL96NE
Civil Parish NORTON, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

An evaluation and monitoring were carried out at Mill Farm, The Street, Norton, in Suffolk. The works revealed evidence of medieval/post-medieval ditches, as well as several post-medieval pits, postholes, floor layers, walls and foundation slots. Further undated postholes were also excavated. The majority of the later structural features related to a complex of farm buildings that had been on the site, whilst the pits are likely to be from slightly earlier farmyard activity. Finds recovered from the works included medieval pottery, as well as post-medieval pottery, brick, tile, animal bone, glass, a nail and coal. Undated fired clay was also recovered, as were a piece of later prehistoric worked flint and several heated stone fragments. Environmental samples from the site indicated that light industrial processes had been carried out in the area at some point and that there had been waterlogging or flooding too. An unstratified millstone was present on the site. Its date is uncertain, but it is thought to relate to the site's name. Some areas of the site had been slightly truncated by the laying of a post-medieval layer of aggregate across the area, which caused further damage to the underlying layers when it was machined off. However, apart from this the archaeological features were well preserved. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future No Associated Identifiers: HER event no. NRN 024 Sitecode NRN 024 Planning Application No. Mid Suffolk 2323/09 Contracting Unit No. 2012/054 NMR No. 1569293 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: '''''Test-Pit Survey''''', '''''Watching Brief''''' Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPS Site status: Area of Archaeological Importance (AAI) Current Land use: Other 3 - Built over, Other 13 - Waste ground Monument Type(s)/Period(s): POSTHOLE Uncertain, PIT Uncertain, POSTHOLE Post Medieval , FOUNDATION Post Medieval , FLOOR Post Medieval , PIT Post Medieval , DITCH Post Medieval , DITCH Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): MILLSTONE Medieval , MORTAR Post Medieval , FIRED CLAY Uncertain, TILE Post Medieval , BRICK Post Medieval , LITHIC IMPLEMENT Late Prehistoric, POT Post Medieval , MILLSTONE Post Medieval , POT Medieval PROJECT LOCATION Area 4182.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TL95996573 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: Jess Tipper Director/Manager: Jo Caruth Supervisor: Rob Brooks DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service ID: NRN 024 Contents: 'Animal Bones', 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Glass', 'Industrial', 'Metal', 'Stratigraphic', 'Survey', 'Worked stone/lithics', 'other' Media: 'Spreadsheets', 'Survey', 'Text', 'Database', 'Images raster / digital photography' PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service ID: NRN 024 Contents: 'Animal Bones', 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Glass', 'Industrial', 'Metal', 'Worked stone/lithics', 'other' Media: 'Context sheet', 'Correspondence', 'Notebook - Excavation', ' Research', ' General Notes', 'Plan', 'Report', 'Section', 'Survey ', 'Unpublished Text' PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service ID: J/115/3 Contents: 'Animal Bones', 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Glass', 'Industrial', 'Metal', 'Worked stone/lithics' BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Mill Farm, Norton, NRN 024, Archaeological Evaluation and Monitoring Report Author(s)/Editor(s): Brooks, R. Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS Report No. 2012/054 Date: 2012 Issuer/Publisher: SCCAS Place of Issue or Publication: Bury St Edmunds Description: A4, comb-bound, white card cover, in colour, with 8 appendices, also available as a pdf

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Unpublished document: Brooks R. 2012. Archaeological Evaluation and Monitoring Report, Mill Farm, Norton.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Mill Farm, Norton (Monument)

Record last edited

Nov 3 2012 2:28PM

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