Site Event/Activity record ESF21912 - Monitoring, Former Maltings, Bury St Edmunds

Monitoring of the excavation of trenches, a man hole and a large soak-away at the former maltings on Mildenhall Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, revealed evidence of several post-medieval features and layers, including canal channels thought to be associated with the coal yard and the maltings. A brick quayside surface, as well as a chalk screed/surface, several make-up, consolidation and levelling layers were also recorded and are all post-medieval. Finds recovered from the site comprise late medieval and post-medieval brick fragments, and undated CBM. The service and manhole trenches were dug to a depth of 1.9m below the esisting concrete yard. Initially 0.2-0.36m of concrete, tarmac and rubble layers were stripped. This either uncovered brick or chalk surface and further archaeological levels. Only in the initial drainage trenches, around the area of section 1, was the natural geology uncovered. This consisted of a pale yellow and mid orange mottled sand with frequent gravel inclusions (S1).