Monument record LMD 248 - Multi period site: Land on south side of Bull Lane, Long Melford (CGMs) GEO EVAL (OAE) EXC

2015: Geophysical survey identified several anomalies of uncertain origin. A broad, positive linear anomaly corresponds with a former field boundary shown on historic mapping (S1).

Excavation took place between October 2017 and February 2018 revealing evidence for occupation from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age including a Bronze Age cremation. The Most archaeolgocail activity dated to the Medieval period with a field system, pits, postholes, a building andA total of 0.48 hectares was stripped which revealed evidence
for occupation from the Neolithic to post-medieval times. a series of ovens.


Excavation took place between October 2017 and February 2018 with a total of 0.48 hectares being stripped which revealed evidence for occupation from the Neolithic to post-medieval times. Prehistoric activity dated from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age and notably included an unurned cremation burial of Bronze Age date and a rare Neolithic polissoir (for grinding polished stone axes). Most archaeological activity dated to the early medieval with a field system, also contemporary pits and postholes, identified. A second phase of medieval activity, centred around a small roadside building and a series of ovens which were proven to have had fallen from use by the end of the 14th century, was also found. The early medieval boundary ditches remained functioning as plot boundaries throughout the later medieval and post-medieval periods. Post-medieval midden deposits were dumped from nearby dwellings on the limits of the property boundaries at which time the ditches fell from use.