Monument record TYY 021 - September 1996: Single sherds of handmade ESax pottery and Thetford ware discovered during excavation of mainly Med site - see (S1) fo… (Sax)

September 1996: Single sherds of handmade ESax pottery and Thetford ware discovered during excavation of mainly Med site - see (S1) for details
An evaluation of a 6h development site revealed medieval deposits towards its S.W. end. An area of 2,500 sq.m. was subsequently stripped under archaeological supervision and more detailed excavation was carried out on 550 sq.m. within that area. Thie revealed three main phases of activity, dating from the 12th to the 14 th centuries. Significant quantities of pottery were recovered from shallow ditches which appeared to repsect the edges of a 10x14m syb-rectangular gravelled surface, with a gravel pathway leading off to the N.w. side and had been re-metalled in the 14th century. There was no structural evidence for any buildings on the site and it seems likely that the surface formed a storage area on the edge of the Byle Fleet, a tidal water-course which would have been periodically navigable by small vessels. (S2).