Site Event/Activity record ESF20979 - Post-Excavation Assessment, Dennington CEVCP School

This report represents the evidence from an archaeological evaluation and excavation at Dennington CEVCP School, Laxfield Road, Dennington, Suffolk. It provides a quantification and assessment of the site archive to answer specific research questions. The significance of the data is assessed and recommendations for dissemination of the results of the fieldwork are made. In this instance it is recommended that no further analysis is required and that this report should qualify as a 'grey literature' report. The earliest activity was a boundary ditch probably dating to the Iron Age. Later phases of activity incorporated residual prehistoric finds, and there is a suggestion that these may have been originally deposited in a scattered midden. An undated phase of activity on the site included a track and its adjacent ditches, pits, and an extended inhumation burial. These features are likely to date to the late Saxon or early medieval period, but this was not proven by the finds or by radio-carbon dating of the burial. At some stage the track went out of use and the plot was ploughed. In the medieval period the site was occupied by one or more timber buildings and an associated rubbish pit. These went out of use in the late 13th or 14th century, after which the site again reverted to agricultural or horticultural use. A ditched boundary probably divided two areas within the school grounds in the 19th century, over which were the modern school playground and garden deposits. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future Not known Associated Identifiers: HER event no. DNN 047 Sitecode DNN 047 OASIS form ID suffolkc1-69314 OASIS form ID suffolkc1-83331 NMR No. 1543154 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: Full excavation Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Site status: None Current Land use: Other 3 - Built over Monument Type(s)/Period(s): DITCH Late Iron Age , DITCHES Uncertain, POST HOLES Medieval , GRAVE Uncertain, PITS Uncertain, LAYER Medieval , POST HOLES Uncertain, DITCH Post Medieval , PIT Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): POT Iron Age , ANIMAL REMAINS Uncertain, LITHIC IMPLEMENTS Iron Age , POT Medieval PROJECT LOCATION Area 400.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TM282671 Point Height 44.62 - 45.01 metres PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: Jess Tipper Director/Manager: Rhodri Gardner Supervisor: Duncan Stirk DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Glass, Human Bones, Metal, Worked stone/lithics, other Media: Images raster / digital photography, Survey, Text PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Glass, Human Bones, Metal, Worked stone/lithics, other Media: Context sheet, Correspondence, Miscellaneous Material, Plan, Report, Section PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Glass, Human Bones, Metal, Worked stone/lithics BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Post-Excavation Assessment - Dennington CEVCP School, Laxfield Road, Dennington DNN 047 Author(s)/Editor(s): Stirk, D., Fawcett, A. Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS Report No. 2010/153 Date: 2010 Issuer/Publisher: SCCAS Place of Issue or Publication: Bury St Edmunds Description: A4, comb bound, with white cover (also available as PDF)