Monument record ERL 148 - Liberty village, RAF Lakenheath

Evaluation and excavation of proposed development area located 21m diameter ring ditch with central multiple inhumations in single grave and a pond barrow containing an unurned cremation. Summary in (S1). Report outstanding.
The first phase was a funerary complex consisting of an Early Bronze Age ring ditch and associated inhumation burials. The ring ditch (ERL 148) enclosed an area 21.5m in diameter and was 4.6m wide and 1.25m deep. The ditch showed two distinctive periods of infilling, the final stages containing small amounts of Roman material suggesting the monument was still partially visible at this time. A central grave contained the remains of four individuals. The primary burial was a crouched female following which the grave was infilled and then re-cut for the burial of a c.16 year old female, then an infant with a small pottery vessel. The semi-articulated remains of an elderly female and a cremated pig were identified in the upper fills of the grave. A cremation burial within a possible pond barrow was identified lying to the south of the western ring ditch (S2 S3).

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2005 (S4).