Ipswich UAD child record record IPS 1071 - Building 0487

This sunken featured building lay parallel to and 6m back from the present St. Peter's Street frontage. Because of its close proximity to standing buildings to the north of the excavated site, only the south half was fully excavated, although it was possible to calculate its full length from the limited amount of fill removed from the north end. The south end of the building was heavily truncated by later pits (0036, 0047, 0236, 0261).
The building measured some 6.7m north-south by 4.7m and had been cut to a depth of 1.6m below the surface of the natural. Excavation of cutting pit, to a depth below the floor level, revealed the water table only some 20cm below the base of the cellar (at1.55mOD). No evidence of any flooring materials was found.
Three post holes (0286, 0457, 0459) of the west wall were recorded but the east wall had been completely cut away by later features. The south wall showed two phases of construction. A gravel-filled slot (0478) with one post hole (0476), at the east end, was cut by postholes 0477 and 0460 with a larger posthole (0461) to the west, (S1).