Monument record CDD 071 - Medieval pottery and post medeival foundation at Ivy Farmhouse

2010: Fieldwork was carried out in an attempt to confirm the owner’s research indicating that this was the site of Knights Hospitallers’ manor of St John. Pottery from several test trenches around the 17th-century house confirmed medieval occupation. A secondary excavation took place on the site of two former windmills, looking for evidence of the Hospitallers’ own mill, known to have stood on their manor in 1338. Although the remains of 18th- and 19th-century mills were exposed, nothing of medieval date was found. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2010 (S1).

2010:Fieldwork was carried out in an attempt to confirm the owner’s research indicating that this was the site of Knights Hospitallers’ manor of St John. Pottery of 12th to 14th century from several test trenches around the 17th-century house confirmed medieval occupation but failed to confirm its site. A gap in the artefact evidence was seen between the 15th an 16th century, suggesting the site had been abandoned well before the Dissolution and the acquisition of the preceptory site at Battisford by Andrew Judd in 1543. Trench one produced a flint foundation wall of an outbuilding only recently demolished. Although its origins may be earlier, no dating evidence was identified (S2, S3).