Ipswich UAD child record record IPS 1105 - Building 0296

This is the only square sunken featured building excavated in the town to date. It was 2.5m by 2.5m, with a pit 60cm deep. The pit had a timber lining of horizontal planks and all nine structural posts were observed as voids. No evidence of any flooring was found on the base of the pit, and no external means of entry.

In this phase, the sunken feature of this building was filled in and capped with two layers of clay, the base of which was burnt red-brown. All nine structural posts of the original building were observed as voids through the clay capping and had clearly been left in situ with the clay capping forming the floor of the phase 2 building. How this second phase of building relates to the town bank construction is uncertain. It was either burnt at the time of the bank construction, or was incorporated into the bank and burnt down at a later date.(S1).