Site Event/Activity record ESF26318 - Excavation Test Pits, Devereaux's Pit, Icklingham
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Location
| Location | Icklingham |
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| Grid reference | |
| Map sheet | |
| Civil Parish | ICKLINGHAM, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK |
Technique(s)
Organisation
British Museum
Date
Not recorded.
Map
No mapped location recorded.
Description
Approx mapping. Section 2 was reopened and expanded, revealing a brickearth sequence overlying a non-calcareous grey silt. Excavation of a 2m x 1m test pit through the grey silt. The base of Section 1 was also reopened and expanded, revealing a similar grey silt to Section 2. Three 1m x 1m test pits through the grey silt. Samples were taken for clast lithological analysis, sediment analyses and ESR dating on quartz. Sample analysis is ongoing and a programme of borehole and geophysical work is planned for 2018 (S1).
Sources/Archives (1)
- <S1> SSF58617 Article in serial: Minter, F. and Saunders, A.. 2018. Archaeology in Suffolk 2017, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- IKL 043 Devereux's Pit, Icklingham Brick Pit, Icklingham, (Palaeolithic) (Monument)
Record last edited
Sep 15 2020 9:23AM