Site Event/Activity record ESF23007 - Excavation - Land south of Featherbroom Gardens, High Street, Wickham Market, Suffolk

The site consists of two areas of open-area excavation and four targeted trenches on the site of a proposed residential development. The earliest remains on this site comprise a possible hearth together with artefacts of worked flint, likely to date to around the mid-late Neolithic or Bronze Age. Although post-depositional damage indicates that the greater part of the flint assemblage is likely to be residual material, present within the fills of later features and soil horizons. The most significant findings are Late Iron Age to Early Roman and comprise a series of cremation burials towards the west of the site accompanied by contemporary activity including pits and enclosures. The medieval / early post-medieval period is primarily represented by a ditched agricultural field system comprising two boundaries oriented north-north-west to south-south-east.