Monument record BSM 084 - Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval finds from Fieldwalking near Bures St Mary
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TL 9259 3400 (286m by 171m) |
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Map sheet | TL93SW |
Civil Parish | BURES ST MARY, BABERGH, SUFFOLK |
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Full Description
2011: Over a period of two days in March 2011 a programme of community field-walking was undertaken on a field known as Tile Field, south of Bures St Mary in Suffolk. The fieldwalking was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of the Managing a Masterpiece programme in the Stour Valley and enabled 67 local residents and volunteers living in the surrounding area to take part in the field-walking which was supervised by Access Cambridge Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and directed by Dr Carenza Lewis. With just one field walked, results are difficult to interpret, but they suggest that site was lightly used throughout most of the prehistoric period from the Mesolithic onwards, with a short episode of localised more intensive use in the late Bronze age or early Iron Age. From the Roman period the site appears to have been in use as arable, perhaps manured from a settlement nearby. Small amounts of pottery hint at some human presence in the Anglo-Saxon period, and possibly of a small farmstead or cottage just to the north of the site in the high medieval period up to about 1400 AD. Thereafter the site seems to been used as fields, with very little post-medieval or modern material recovered, apart from very large amounts of roof tile primarily found in one corner of the site, possibly brought therefrom elsewhere. (S1)
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SSF62501 Unpublished document: Lewis, C. and Ranson, C.. 2012. Field-Walking near Bures St Mary Suffolk.
Finds (6)
- FSF57273: POTTERY (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FSF57274: POTTERY (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- FSF57275: POTTERY (Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
- FSF57276: POTTERY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FSF57277: FLAKE (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
- FSF57278: BURNT FLINT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (1)
Record last edited
Oct 20 2025 4:26PM