Monument record LXD 135 - OUTLINE RECORD: Bronze Age features and Iron Age Settlment features and medieval and undated ditchesFramlingham Road, Laxfield (Cotswold Suffolk) Eval

Evaluation and excavation recorded a Bronze Age ‘burnt mound’ along the N edge of the development area, including a well and troughs, along with a deposit of heat-altered flint mixed within the ploughsoil. The remnants of the heat-altered flint mixed within the ploughsoil suggested the burnt mound had likely been plough damaged and this was indeed the case. The well was only partially hand-excavated due to the wet ground conditions, and was machine augered to a depth of 3.5m.
A probable Bronze Age field system extended across the central higher part of the site and features and artefacts dating to the Middle Iron Age were identified at the centre. 3 penannular gullies of this date were identified within 2 earlier enclosure ditches that had been completely or partially infilled by the time of their construction. The enclosure ditches were dated by finds that are in the process of being analysed and are presumed to be Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. The larger of the 3 penannular gullies produced a large assemblage of finds suggesting it formed the remnant of a roundhouse. Other features included a small number of pits associated with the Middle Iron Age settlement, 3 smaller medieval ditches and several undated ditches that were equally spaced apart, and most likely relate to medieval or post-medieval drainage (S1).