Site Event/Activity record ESF22975 - Excavation, 16 Mill Street, Mildenhall

PROJECT DETAILS Significant activity on this site did not occur until the medieval period. A substantial boundary ditch was dug into the natural chalk at the north end of the site, parallel with Mill Street. Its fills produced small amounts of 12th-13th century pottery in association with charred cereal remains. It has been suggested that the ditch might have been associated with a former bailey, since this part of Mill Street was known as Le Bayle in the 15th-16th centuries. Other medieval evidence consisted of a much smaller but parallel ditch and a few pits containing 12th-14th century pottery. Medieval features were sealed by thick deposits of worked soil, which were truncated by post-medieval cess/refuse pits. A large rectangular cut close to the northern edge of the site might have been the cellar of a late medieval building fronting on the churchyard to the north. It was backfilled in the 16th-17th century and a sequence of three buildings was constructed on the same plot. Only the backs of these properties were recorded and their forms and functions are unknown. In the 19th century several large outbuildings (one of which was demolished only recently) were constructed around a yard to the rear of 16 Mill Street. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous Yes, Future No Associated Identifiers: HER event no. MNL 674 NMR No. 1592153 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: '''Part Excavation''' Reason for Investigation: Planning condition Monument Type(s)/Period(s): DITCH Medieval , PIT Medieval , PIT Post Medieval , BUILDING Post Medieval , CELLAR Post Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): POTTERY Medieval , POTTERY Post Medieval , CBM Medieval , CBM Post Medieval PROJECT LOCATION Area 1200.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TL71007452 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: K. Wade Director/Manager: Andrew Tester Supervisor: Kieron Heard DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: MNL 674 Contents: 'Animal Bones', 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Glass', 'Metal', 'Stratigraphic', 'Survey' Media: 'Database', 'Images raster / digital photography', 'Images vector', 'Survey', 'Text' PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: MNL 674 Contents: 'Stratigraphic' Media: 'Context sheet', 'Matrices', 'Plan', 'Report', 'Section' PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: MNL 674 Contents: 'Animal Bones', 'Ceramics', 'Glass', 'Metal', 'Environmental' BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: 16 Mill Street, Mildenhall, Suffolk, MNL 674: Archaeological Post-excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design Author(s)/Editor(s): Heard, K Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS report no. 2013/051 Date: 2014 Issuer/Publisher: Suffolk County Council Place of Issue or Publication: Bury St Edmunds Description: A4, 101 pages, wire bound