Site Event/Activity record ESF21311 - Evaluation - St Edmunds Primary School, Bury St Edmunds

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Location

Location St Edmunds Primary School
Grid reference Centred TL 8535 6365 (48m by 45m)
Map sheet TL86SE
Civil Parish BURY ST EDMUNDS, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service

Date

Not recorded.

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Description

An archaeological evaluation was carried out in the playground and on the grass sports field of St Edmunds Catholic Primary School as part of a condition prior to an application to extend the school building into the playground. Two evaluation trenches were excavated. Trench One exposed natural chalk which suggests that the site had been truncated during construction. Trench Two was within the school playing field exposed the base of two medieval, and one post-medieval pits. The soil profile was consistent across the trench revealing an upper layer of recent topsoil c.0.2m deep; this overlaid a chalk layer with dark brown silt and a layer of dark brown clay silt that was up to 0.5m deep. Over most of the trench there was a layer of mid dark, grey/brown silt up to 0.4m deep (S1).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Unpublished document: Tester, A.. 2011. Archaeological Evaluation Report, St Edmunds Primary School, Bury St Edmunds, BSE 374.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • St Edmunds Primary School, Bury St Edmunds (Monument)

Record last edited

Aug 22 2022 5:12PM

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