Monument record ERL 089 - RAF Lakenheath, Child Development Centre (IA)

June 1995: Single crouched burial found by workmen in service trench next to building 421. Site examined - no sign of grave cut in formed soil over burial, which was only about 45cm deep below present ground surface (and only circa 20cm below ancient ground surface?), overlying hard, decayed chalk. Bones in fairly good condition although some were lost during excavation of the trench. Probably prehistoric. No other burials or finds from about 25m length of trenches noted. Details and sketches in (S1).
Findspot mislocated to TL 7289 8008, relocated to TL 7263 8000 in October 1996 (S2) AND (S4).
2001 & 2002: Large area excavations uncovered Middle Iron Age pits (with some scored ware), LIA/Early Rom ditch systems and ESax features (S3).
2003: Radiocarbon dated to 2450 +/-50BP (GU-10504, 770-440BC @ 2 sigma)(S3).
See also Rom & Sax.

Assessment of the potential for the analysis and publication of the archaeologicial finds at RAF Lakenheath (S5).

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2001 (S6).