Site Event/Activity record ESF24379 - Excavation - 63-67 Cannon Street, Bury

A small archaeological strip map and sample was carried out prior to the construction of two houses on land between 63 and 66 Cannon Street, in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.The site had previously been evaluated by Suffolk Archaeology CIC with two evaluation trenches finding well preserved medieval and post-medieval ditches, pits and postholes. The strip, map and sample area was located between Trench 1 and Trench 2 where the densest archaeology was identified. A small number of well-preserved features were found including two medieval postholes, two medieval or post-medieval ditches along with three post-medieval square cut trenches and gullies and a tree throw containing Neolithic struck flint.