Site Event/Activity record ESF20093 - Excavation, St. Bartholomew's Wharf, College Street, Ipswich, (IAS 6303).

An excavation was carried out at the above site in advance of residential development. An area of c. 110m2 was subjected to open area excavation. In the event the site was found to be almost entirely occupied by a single cellared room of late 19th century date; almost certainly associated with the former St Peter's Iron Works. The depth of this cellaring was such that it had truncated the majority of earlier evidence for any occupation of the College Street frontage. This depth and difficulties with groundwater in the enclosed space also meant that it was difficult to relate the earlier foreshore deposits to those seen elsewhere on other sites. No evidence of the well-preserved in situ hurdles of the earlier medieval period were seen here. Although by no means certain, the deposits below the water table here, and the levels at which they were encountered (below 1m AOD), suggests that the excavation was to the south of any such occupation of the foreshore associated with the Anglo-Saxon settlement. Given the depth of the cellaring and the fact that the proposed development was to be piled no further work was recommended. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future No Associated Identifiers: HER event no. IPS 587 Sitecode IAS 6303 Planning Application No. IP/06/00288 NMR No. 1515655 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: Full excavation, Open-area excavation Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Site status: Area of Archaeological Importance (AAI) Current Land use: Other 13 - Waste ground Monument Type(s)/Period(s): CELLAR Post Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): NONE None PROJECT LOCATION Area 110.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TM16394407 Point Height 1.00 - 1.00 metres PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Planning Authority (with/without advice from County/District Archaeologist) Design originator: K. Wade Director/Manager: Rhodri Gardner Supervisor: Rhodri Gardner DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: AHDS Contents: Stratigraphic Media: Images raster / digital photography, Text PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR Contents: Stratigraphic Media: Context sheet, Drawing, Map, Photograph, Plan, Report, Section, Unpublished Text BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: St Bartholomew's Wharf, College Street, Ipswich Author(s)/Editor(s): Gardner, R. Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS Report No. 2007/069 Date: 2007 Issuer/Publisher: SCCAS Place of Issue or Publication: Ipswich Description: A4 ring-bound - double-sided, 7 pages