Monument record BSM 084 - Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval finds from Fieldwalking near Bures St Mary

Please read our .

Summary

Fieldwalking recovered prehistoric flints and pottery and pottery of Roman, Saxon, Medieval and Post medieval date

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 9259 3400 (286m by 171m)
Map sheet TL93SW
Civil Parish BURES ST MARY, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

Map

Type and Period (0)

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)

  • --- Unpublished document: Lewis, C. and Ranson, C.. 2012. Field-Walking near Bures St Mary Suffolk.

Finds (6)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

Record last edited

Oct 20 2025 4:26PM

Comments and Feedback

Do you have any more information about this record? Please feel free to comment with information and photographs, or ask any questions, using the "Disqus" tool below. Comments are moderated, and we aim to respond/publish as soon as possible.