Site Event/Activity record ESF20699 - Abbey Farm Habitat Creation, Snape

The excavation of new ditches and ponds, and re-profiling of existing ditches as a part of an RSPB/Environment Agency habitat creation scheme was carried out on land at Abbey Farm, Snape. This required a programme of archaeological monitoring in order to record the deposit sequences revealed and any archaeological interventions present. No archaeological evidence was observed in the course of these groundworks, either in the form of incised features or pre-modern artefacts. A second phase of work monitored the insertion of a sluice gate along the southern boundary of the site and on the line of the former Great Eastern Railway (Snape Branch). A series of crag sand layers were revealed which were likely to have been imported deposits associated with the construction of the railway line during the ninteenth century. A layer of material which included fragments of medieval masonary likely to have originated from Snape Priory, to which this land formerly belonged, was also incorporated into the railway line construction material. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous Yes, Future Not known Associated Identifiers: HER event no. SNP 097 Planning Application No. C/08/0009 NMR No. 1529910 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: Watching Brief Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Site status: None Monument Type(s)/Period(s): N/A None Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): CBM Medieval , WORKED STONE Medieval PROJECT LOCATION Area 21.00 Hectares Grid Reference: TM388579 Point Height 0 - 5.00 metres PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: William Fletcher Director/Manager: John Newman Supervisor: Linzi Everett DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: AHDS ID: SNP 097 Contents: other Media: Images raster / digital photography, Text PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: SNP 097 Contents: other Media: Correspondence, Unpublished Text PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: SNP 097 Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Worked stone/lithics BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: SNP 097 Abbey Farm habitat creation, Snape Author(s)/Editor(s): Everett, L. Other Bibliographic Details: 2009/170 Date: 2010 Issuer/Publisher: SCCAS Place of Issue or Publication: SCCAS