Monument record BUT 002 - Butley Abbey; Butley Priory; Abbey Farm (Med)

"Butley Abbey"
Site of priory. Augustinian. Founded 1171. Gatehouse restored, fragments of standing masonry (S1)(R1)(R2)(R3). Two photographs of gatehouse in Basil Brown archive (BJU 13 & 14).
Details of 1930 & 1933 excavations & finds in (S2). The excavations in January & July 1933 (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s), revealed area infilled with dumped rubbish/earth post C16 & pre 1790 (S1)(S2).
Previously site of Med wooden wharf serving Priory - earliest period `well back in the C13, possibly even as far back as the foundation of the Priory in 1171', 2nd phase probably C14 (S2).
13th C rere-dorter has since been converted for use as a barn (S4).
LS/EMed box fitting, small lead vessel (?date), Nuremburg token, pottery sherds from (see 'Not to be published on web' tab for finder/s and/or findspot/s), found metal detecting. Floor tiles ? illustrated and discussed in (R3).
1993: Fishponds visited by J Newman, following desilting (M1). Central causeway still extant, base of fishpond in peat. PMed pit and tile visible in peat round edge of pond (S3).
Also Rom and LSax metalwork.

2007: Metal detected bronze finds including a pointed oval seal matrix inscribed MATER DEI MISERERE MEI (Mother of God have mercy on me) (S5) and a harness pendant (S6). Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2007 (S7)