Monument record BAC 044 - OUTLINE RECORD: Multi-period agricultural activity, Land adjacent Wyverstone Road, Bacton (GSB) GEO (ASE) EVAL (PCA) EXC

2022: Following trial trench evaluation, three areas of this site were targeted for excavation. The sequence of activity began in the Middle Iron Age with part of a farmstead comprising two roundhouses and associated pits. In the early Roman period, an oven or kiln and two timber buildings, one a small structure with a rammed chalk floor, and the second a larger, barn-type building, indicate either a new farmstead or a continuation of the later Iron Age settlement. By the mid-Roman period, the farmstead appears to have gone out of use but there was evidence for continuing agricultural use of the area. A copper-alloy dress pin, similar to examples from Staunch Meadow, Brandon, hints at low-level activity here in the c.8th/9th century. By the later 12th to 14th century there was widespread evidence for agricultural activity across the site, with indications of occupation both close to the present village, to the south, and to the west, along the Wyverstone Road. Activity continued at a lower level in the late medieval and post-medieval periods (S1).