Site Event/Activity record ESF21594 - Desk Based Assessment at Thorington Hall, Pinewood

Desk based assessment, prior to a housing development. There is one known archaeological site within the PDA, WHR 023 the remains of a probable Bronze Age burial mound. The field named 'kiln field' identified in the documentary search indicates the potential for there to have been a kiln of some type within this area. The aerial photographic search located probable hand dug quarry pits and these could potentially be associated with the kiln. The aerial photographic survey also located a palaeo-channel running across the site from west to east. The PDA is 250m to the west of Bobbits Hole (SSSI) where Ipswichian interglacial (c.135,000-70,000BC) lake bed deposits were found. There is the potential that these deposits could continue into the PDA, possibly indicated in the results from Test pits 1, 9 and 10. In the spoil from Test pit 6 a Palaeolithic flint flake created during the manufacture of a hand-axe was recovered. The unworn condition of the flake indicates that it has not moved far from the original place in which it was deposited, suggesting that there could be further material of this date within the PDA.