Site Event/Activity record ESF21493 - Excavation - Cherry Tree Farm, Mellis Road, Wortham

Between 1st and the 31st March 2010, OA East conducted an excavation on c.0.16ha of land at Cherry Tree Farm, Wortham, Suffolk (TM 0846 7708) in advance of a housing development. There was no definite Saxon occupation on the site and it is likely that the excavation area lay outside of the settlement at this time. The first main archaeological phase on site dated to the late 11th century or sometime in the 12th century and comprised five plots running east to west and presumably these fronted onto Mellis Road. In around the late 13th century, the boundaries within the excavated area were further realigned with two new large east to west long-standing boundary ditches created at the northern and southern sides of the site. In between these ditches there were three shallow fragmentary ditches which may have been the remains of internal boundaries. From the mid 14th to mid 16th centuries the site was probably used only for pastoral farming as there were just four features dating to this period comprising an extremely large watering hole, a fragmentary ditch and two small pits Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future No Associated Identifiers: Sitecode WTM 048 HER event no. WTM 048 Planning Application No. MSDC 751/06 Related HER No. WTM 044 Related HER No. WTM 047 NMR No. 1553891 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: Open-area excavation Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Monument Type(s)/Period(s): SETTLEMENT Post Medieval , SETTLEMENT Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): ANIMAL REMAINS Medieval , POTTERY Early Medieval , BRICK Post Medieval , TILE Post Medieval , POTTERY Medieval , FLINT Late Prehistoric, POTTERY Post Medieval PROJECT LOCATION Area 0.50 Hectares Grid Reference: TM08467708 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Jess Tipper, Suffolk County Council Design originator: Paul Spoerry Director/Manager: Paul Spoerry Supervisor: Robert Atkins DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Oxford Archaeology East ID: WTM 048 Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Environmental, Glass, Industrial, Metal, Stratigraphic, Survey, Worked stone/lithics Media: Images raster / digital photography, Images vector, Survey, Text, Database PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Shire Hall, Bury St. Edmunds ID: WTM 048 Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Environmental, Metal, Stratigraphic, Survey, Worked stone/lithics Media: Context sheet, Correspondence, Diary, Map, Photograph, Plan, Report, Section, Survey PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Shire Hall, Bury St. Edmunds ID: WTM 048 Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Environmental, Glass, Industrial, Metal BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Medieval remains at Cherry Tree Farm, Mellis Road, Wortham, Suffolk Author(s)/Editor(s): Atkins, R. Other Bibliographic Details: OA East Report No. 1176 Date: 2011 Issuer/Publisher: Oxford Archaeology East Place of Issue or Publication: Bar Hill Description: A4 bound report URL: http://library@thehumanjourney.net/822/