Site Event/Activity record ESF20893 - Watching Brief, 6 Cannon Street, Bury St Edmunds

A visit was made to this site following the excavation of a footing trench for a back extension to the house. The trench was c.1m deep with brown topsoil over an orange sand/clay mix. In the section of the footing, which ran beneath the partition wall with 7 Cannon St, was the clear outline of a pit which was deeper than the footing. It was filled with a dark brown loam with fragments of burnt clay, possibly hearth or oven debris. A trowel run across the face of the pit produced a single sherd handmade gritty pottery, possibly of Early Saxon (5th-7th c.) or Early Medieval date (11th-12th c.), and a fragment of chalk-tempered fired clay was also collected (S1).