Monument record BRG 076 - Land North-East of Bury St Edmunds, Great Barton, (Mesolithic-Bronze Age).

2014/2015: Archaeological evaluation in advance of a proposed housing development revealed evidence of Iron Age-Roman occupation. Archaeological remains dating from the earlier prehistoric to the post-medieval were recorded. Most of the remains were Iron Age-Roman but a small assemblage of mostly Neolithic/Early Bronze Age worked flints were found as residual finds in later deposits. Two of the flint pieces could be Mesolithic or Early Neolithic. (S1).

See also main record.

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2015 (S3).


Detailed fluxgate gradiometer survey recorded five discrete anomalies of potential archaeological origin. One broad weak positive linear anomaly of probable natural origin, large areas of magnetic disturbance, a plethora of dipolar ‘iron-spike’ anomalies and six weak linear dipolar responses indicative of service pipe trenches were also prospected (S4).