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

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Location

Location 6 Cannon Street
Grid reference Centred TL 8533 6464 (5m by 4m)
Map sheet TL86SE
Civil Parish BURY ST EDMUNDS, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

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).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Unpublished document: Tester, A.. 2003. Archaeological Watching Brief, 6 Cannon Street, Bury St Edmunds.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • 6 Cannon Street (Monument)

Record last edited

Aug 20 2018 9:57AM

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