Ipswich UAD child record record IPS 1059 - Building 2022 (Phase 1)

This sunken featured building lay end on to and 14m west of road 1825 (the St Stephen's Lane frontage).
The original sides of the sunken feature had been lost, when it was enlarged as part of a rebuilding (Building 2022, phase 2), but the foundations for all four walls survived. The building was 5.6m long (north-south) by 3.9m wide and 1.5m deep. Fragmentary traces of a floor surface (3310), comprising a thin band of red burnt clay and unfired greenish-grey clay, were recorded on the base of the pit. Within this, at least one area of burning (3317) was a probable hearth.
The walls comprised individual post holes set in narrow footing trenches (2816, 3095, 3312, 3384), c.40cm wide by 30cm deep, which respected the position of the entrance in the north-east corner. Not all the post settings survived within the foundation trenches but, where they survived along the west wall, they were closely spaced and never more than 25cm apart. Along the south gable end wall, there were a maximum of six posts, more widely with spaced (25-40cm).
There was a sloping entrance (3366) to the building at the east end of the north wall.
It extended further eastward than the east wall of the building implying a staggered entrance. There was a line of post and stake holes along the west side of the entrance and one posthole remaining on the east side (the others removed by later pits). These, presumably, indicate either the side posts of a wooden staircase or a roofed porch over the entrance.
The entrance (3366) cut MLS pit 3892, with a high percentage (8.3%) of St Neot’s Ware, suggesting a MLS phase 2 construction date. The pottery assemblage associated with the construction features was ELS, presumably as a result of the cutting of three ELS pits during construction, but the backfill of the sunken feature was MLS, with one sherd of EMED pottery., (S1).