Site Event/Activity record ESF23033 - Detailed Magnetometer Survey, Riverside Farm, Creeting St Mary

A detailed magnetometer survey was conducted over 0.75ha of land ahead of the proposed constuction of a single building with an associated access road and pond. A narrow rang of geophysical anomalies were recorded, the most numerous of which were isolated dipolar responses caused by ferrious objects deposited within the topsoil. Two areas of magnetic disturbance on the southern limit record the close proximity of a brick outbuilding, an extant fire pit and a metal fence boundary. One very large area of magnetic disturbance was recorded where a large extant depression is located and a pit is drawn on cartographic sources. A weak negative linear anomaly running parallel with the norther field boundary has been interpreted as a non-ferrous service pipe. A cluster of four thermoremnant reponses recorded close to the western boundary. Seven positive linear anomalies indivative of ditch type features provide evidence for an earlier phase of field boundary sub-division or enclosures of potential agricultural or archaeoogical origin (S1).