Site Event/Activity record ESF26556 - Evaluation - Reeves Yard, Ipswich

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Location

Location
Grid reference Centred TM 1675 4449 (51m by 37m)
Map sheet TM14SE
Civil Parish IPSWICH, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

Suffolk Archaeology CIC

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

2019: An archaeological evaluation was undertaken by Suffolk Archaeology (now Cotswold Archaeology) in March 2019 at Reeves Yard, Upper Orwell Street, Ipswich, in advance of a proposed development. Three trenches, totalling 27m in length, were excavated. A natural subsoil of yellow sand and gravel, which sloped gently down to the south and west, was encountered at a depths of between c.1m to 1.3m. It lay below an overburden that comprised a late post-medieval made ground consisting of alternating layers of rubble and topsoil with occasional chalk surfaces, up to 0.7m thick, which was interpreted as activity relating to the 19th century development of the area. This overlay a deposit of dark grey-brown clayey loam with occasional fragments of post-medieval, and possibly medieval, brick and tile, which was interpreted as a buried topsoil and garden deposits that predate the 19th century activity. (S1)

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Unpublished document: Sommers, M.. 2019. Archaeological Evaluation: Reeves Yard, Ipswich.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Saxon to early Medieval activity at Reeves Yard, Ipswich (Monument)

Record last edited

Oct 3 2022 4:22PM

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