Monument record COG 028 - Early Bronze Age Round Barrow with cremation and a Small Middle Bronze Age Barrow with a cremation

2010: An area of 0.66ha was excavated in 2009 in advance of a housing development. Two large ring-ditches, indicative of flattened round barrows had been recorded by aerial photography and could be seen as slight landscape features. This ring ditch was 63m from the first and had more substantial ditch which measured up to 6.6m wide and 2.2m deep, with an external diameter of 37m. A pair of bone tweezers of probable Early Bronze Age date and cremated bone was buried in a small pit, off centre, beneath the mound material. Two sherds of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age pottery and nine worked flints were recovered from the lower silt fills of the ditch. A large assemblage (900+ sherds) of Early Saxon handmade pottery was collected from a deliberate backfilling layer at the top of the ditch (but only on the W side) This was interpreted as the deliberate disposal of domestic refuse but no other Anglo-Saxon features were indentified on the site. In addition to the large ring ditches a third previously unknown, smaller ring-ditch enclosing a cremation and an isolated pit containing cremated bone were also found; these features are as yet undated.
The identified features are part of a wider landscape of funeral monuments of the prehistoric period, which includes a Bronze Age ring ditch (COG 025) to the south and another ring ditch cropmark (COG 006) to the east. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2010 (S1).

2009: Early Bronze Age Round Barrow with a cremation and a set of bone tweezers, a Small Middle Bronze Age Barrow with a cremation and a large number of Anglo Saxon pottery sherds in the upper fills of the large barrow (S2 S3)

Evalutation and excavation of area including ring ditch prior to development. Within former rugby ground. Included small new ring ditch (S4)