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Finds from front garden include Late Prehistoric flint flake, 2 C13/C14 sherds and 3 GRE sherds.

The cropmarks of enclosures or fields of unknown, but possible later prehistoric to Roman date, are visible on aerial photographs. These features would appear to be a continuation of the fields recorded under SOL 002 or part of the same phase.

Remains of an old Decoy, long disused.

Evaluation identified post-medieval use of the site with an occupation soil of 16th-18th century date being cut by later pits and sealed by a chalk yard.

A timber framed and plastered building, erected in 1668.

October 1991: Incomplete bifacially worked leaf arrowhead of light brown flint.

The site of a large sub-circular or polygonal enclosure of uncertain, but probable prehistoric date is visible on aerial photographs. The size and morphology of the polygonal monument it could be interpreted as relating to a hengiform monument of the...

`A decoy existed here, of which the author has been unable to obtain any particulars'. (S1, R1).

The cropmark of a ring ditch circa 26 metres in diameter is visible on aerial photographs, partially obscured by the track to the south of Candlet, Trimley St Mary parish.

`This was a Dunbird or Pochard pond, as well as possessing three decoy pipes, and was ruined when the Great Eastern Railway cut right through its immediate vicinity.