Monument record BRK 020 - Darmsden Hall Farm Quarry, Bronze Age (BA)

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Summary

Two trial trenches, each 10m square, produced a flint scraper, a barbed and tanged arrowhead and a few flint flakes, but no proper features.

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 0954 5270 (293m by 298m)
Map sheet TM05SE
Civil Parish BARKING, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Two trial trenches, each 10m square. excavated as part of an area assessment, November 1989.
Trench `A' (TM 0959 5267) produced a flint scraper, a barbed and tanged arrowhead and a few flint flakes, but no proper features.
Plough marks cutting into the subsoil indicated a certain degree of modern erosion (S1).
1995/1996, topsoil stripping over new areas, found no definate features.
See also Mes, Ia, Rom & Sax.
See S3 for details.

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <S1> (No record type): SAU, Martin E, 1989.
  • <M1> (No record type): Excavation archive:.
  • <S2> Unpublished document: Suffolk County Council Archaeologcial Service. Site Report. Newman J, SCCAS1995/6.
  • <S3> Article in serial: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. PSIAH; Volume 37; Part 2; p. 158.

Finds (2)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Related Events/Activities (2)

Record last edited

Oct 23 2012 9:29AM

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