Ipswich UAD child record record IPS 1152 - Building 0040

Foundation trench 0080 was 30cm wide, 5-20cm deep, and ran for 3.5m, north-south, along the western edge of the site, parallel with Foundation Street. It appeared to contain an integral post hole (not numbered separately) at the south end and was probably cut at its north end by EMED pit 0075. A similar foundation trench (0016), 26cm wide and only 6cm deep, was parallel to and 40cm east of 0080. It was traced for only c. 2.5m being was cut to the north by pit 0074 (EMED) and lost to the south where it met pit 0056 and no stratigraphic relationship was recorded. The stretch north of 0056 produced two Ipswich sherds only but pottery from the overlap with 0056 included 2 Thetford ware and 2 EMED sherds almost certainly derived from 0016 as the rest of the sizeable assemblage (32 sherds of Ipswich ware) could only have come from pit 0056. Two postholes (0072, 0073), to the north, are likely to be a continuation of 0016. Posthole 0072 had no pottery but 0073 had two EMED sherds. Foundation trenches 0016 and 0080 presumably represent the rear walls of buildings fronting Foundation Street or fence lines, (S1).