Monument record SUY 097 - OUTLINE RECORD: CHURCH OF ST GREGORY - EVAL (AS)

The stratigraphic sequence revealed during the lowering of the floor within the tower was directly comparable to that recorded during evaluation (test pitting). Externally two brick walls and a flint wall foundation were recorded. No finds predating the post-medieval and modern periods were present excepting a portion of the coped slab lid of a chest tomb, possibly medieval in date and revealed during the lowering of the floor of the tower. Disarticulated human bone was retained to one side, to be re-interred during backfilling. No grave cuts were visible.

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2016 (S1).

An evaluation was conducted prior to the lowering of the floors within the tower and the S chapel. There was no evidence within the tower to suggest the existence of vaults but a former floor was revealed that included some floor tiles in situ. Within the S chapel a brick structure may be associated with a vault, although it could represent a sleeper wall supporting a timber floor (the area exposed during the test pitting was too small to define the feature). A test pit also exposed an earlier tiled floor within the S chapel. No earlier floor was uncovered below. No medieval material was found. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2011 (S2).