Site Event/Activity record ESF21351 - Monitoring - Abbey Garden Play Area, Bury St Edmunds

Monitoring of groundworks for the construction of a new play area and the removal of old play equipment in the Abbey Gardens of Bury St Edmunds revealed no archaeological features, but did identify former banks of the Rivers Linnet and Lark. The former was infilled sometime during the 18th or 19th centuries, and most of the site overlay the filled in riverbed. The latter appeared to deviate from its current course on the east bank, despite extant features from the same period respecting it. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous Yes, Future No Associated Identifiers: Sitecode BSE 366 Contracting Unit No. 2011/132 NMR No. 1549127 Project Type: Field evaluation Development Type: Estate management (i.e. maintenance of existing structures and landscape by capital works and on-going maintenance) Methods and Techniques: Sample Trenches Position in the Planning Process: Not known / Not recorded Reason for Investigation: Conservation Area Consent Site status: Scheduled Monument (SM) Current Land use: Other 14 - Recreational usage Monument Type(s)/Period(s): ABBEY Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): POTTERY Post Medieval PROJECT LOCATION Area 9600.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TL857642 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Planning Authority (with/without advice from County/District Archaeologist) Design originator: Jess Tipper Director/Manager: David Gill Supervisor: Mike Feider, David Gill DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service Contents: none Media: Database, GIS, Images raster / digital photography PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service Contents: Stratigraphic Media: Context sheet, Plan, Report, Section PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service Contents: Ceramics, Human Bones BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Abbey Gardens Play Area, Bury St Edmunds, BSE 366, Archaeological Monitoring Report Author(s)/Editor(s): Feider, M. Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS Report No. 2011/132 Date: 2011 Issuer/Publisher: SCCAS Place of Issue or Publication: Bury St Edmunds Description: A4, comb bound, white card covers, three appendices, (also available as pdf file)