Monument record FEX 088 - Brackenbury Battery site - Bronze Age features and finds (BA)

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Summary

December 1994: Rapid evaluation of single line of trenches traversing former Brackenbury Battery site, prior to construction of sea defences, located multi-period features and finds.

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 3188 3543 (332m by 426m) Centred on
Map sheet TM33NW
Civil Parish FELIXSTOWE, SUFFOLK COASTAL, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

December 1994: Rapid evaluation of single line of trenches traversing former Brackenbury Battery site, prior to construction of sea defences, located multi-period features and finds.
Quantity of relatively unabraded EBA pottery & worked flints including a broken barbed and tanged arrowhead. Only features identified of probable EBA date were a ditch and a slot. Details in (S2).
Also see IA, Preh, Rom, Sax, PMed and Un.

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <S1> (No record type): SAU, Boulter S, December 1994.
  • <M1> Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. Parish file: (S2).
  • <M2> (No record type): Evaluation archive:.
  • <S2> Unpublished document: Boulter, S.. 1995. Archaeological Evaluation Report: Coast Protection Scheme, Brackenbury Phase II, Felixstowe.

Finds (4)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Sep 21 2013 2:56PM

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