Monument record IPS 990 - Medieval and Post Medieval features at ST PETERS WHARF, IPSWICH.

2017: The archaeological assessment has established that the study area has a low potential for prehistoric and Roman activity, a moderate-high potential for Anglo-Saxon and medieval archaeology, and a high potential for postmedieval activity. The study site lies in the southern part of Ipswich, around 13m north of the River Orwell, and just to the west of the Marina. The site is bordered by College Street to the north, Foundry Lane to the east and St Peter’s Dock to the south. Bridge Street lies just west of the site. The site comprises three concrete and steel constructed buildings, each at least 5 storeys high, a soft crush gravel car park and a Grade II listed building (4 College Street) located in the north-west corner of the site. (S1)

2017:Archaeological trial trench evalaution revealed four periods of acitivty of Medieval, Late Medieval to early Post Medieval, Post Medieval and Modern. The earliest activity was represented by rubbish deposit layers and rubbish pits dating to the medieval period with datbale finds to the 13th and 15th centuries. These were recorded in the north of the site, along with a medieval structure with associated wall and floors. Evidence of land reclamation deposits of early post-medieval period were recorded to the south of the site along with a number of timbers. The deposits and timbers lay below the sites water table which was reached at a depth of 1.20m Below Ground Level (BGL) or 1.60m AOD. The majority of archaeology recorded dated to the 19th and 20th centuries and were features related to the industrial process that occurred on the site. These included walls and floors, footings and foundation pads and wells or soakaways. Machine dug sondages along the western edge of the site revealed that though there was extensive truncation of the earlier archaeology by these features; there was significant archaeological survival beneath the foundations and walls at a depth of 1.6m BGL or between 2.22m AOD and 1.68m, (S2)

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2017(S3).