Site Event/Activity record ESF21298 - Manor Farm, Lavenham Road, Preston St Mary

Preston St Mary, Manor Farm, Lavenham Road (PSM 001, TL 9278 5069) monitoring of ground works for two extensions, drainage pipe trenches and internal alterations recorded a ditch of uncertain date, a clay built oven of probable medieval date and a 19th century well within the area of the moated island. While all of the finds were unstratified the moderately large pottery group hints at an Iron Age presence with a single rim sherd before medieval activity commenced in the 11th/12th century period. The ceramic sequence is then continuous to the present with a typical south Suffolk group for the medieval period and some evidence of moderate to high status in the 16th/17th century and it is noteworthy that the house is dated to the mid 17th century.