Monument record IPS 440 - 70-74 St Helens Street, Ipswich, (IAS 8812).

2002: Archaeological monitoring of 70 to 74 St Helen's Street Ipswich revealed a 'dark earth' spread underlying the existing buildings of probable 16th to 18th century date. Seventeenth century maps indicated a watercourse along this road and the 'dark earth' deposit might have been a remnant of a bank associated with the watercourse.

A pair of east to west ditches directly behind these proporties are likely to be field boundaries belonging to before St Helen's became a medieval suburb of Ipswich in the 12th century.
Near the southern boundary of the site a tile-built kiln or oven was revealed. This feature showed eveidence of extreme localised burning but its function is unclear. A post-medieval date is likely for the kiln. At the nearby site of St Edmund House on Rope Walk, post-medieval pottery kilns were found. It is possible that the St Helen's Street kiln is part of this industrial complex (S1).

See also (S2, S3).