Monument record IPS 228 - Buttermarket Shopping Centre Development, Buttermarket and St. Stephens Lane, Ipswich (IAS 3104).

1987-1988: Buttermarket development excavations. Finds include 7th-9th century Saxon cemetery, probably extending further South and Ease, including c. 70 burials, small ring ditches, grave goods including swords, shield boss, two glass cups, bronze belt fittings, glass beads & coffin stains. Traces of numerous 8th and 9th buildings and features were found, two 8th century roads, and three 10th and 11th century buildings as well as rubbish pits with finds. An Ipswich ware (decorated) kiln was excavated. Also uncovered was most of Carmelite Friary Church & cloister ranges. Construction of which started in 1278. Demolished in 1538 after dissolution. Also site of 17th Century County Gaol and market, chapel, Falcon brewery and 19th Century public house (S1, S2) (S8-S14).

See also (S3-S6) and a study of mineralised leather remains from two excavated cemeteries of sixth- and seventh-century date (St Stephen's Lane/Buttermarket in 1987-88 and Boss Hall in 1990) (S7).

See imported pottery reports (S15, S16), C14 report, (S17), Slag report, (S18), architectural stone report, (S19), Charcoal report (S20), Human bone reports, (S21), (S25), Manufacturing waste reports (S22, S23), Carbonised bread report, (S24), Microfauna report, (S26).

Samples of Human bone from eighteen articulated skeletons were process for amino acid and isotope analysis. All skeletons had been radiocarbon dated previously at Queen's University, Belfast. The amino acid analyses and carbon-nitrogen ratios indiacted that the collagen in most samples was moderately well preserved. Stable isotope values for the groups as a whole ae consistent with a predominantly terrestrial diet (S27).