Site Event/Activity record ESF22220 - Monitoring - St Mary's Church Meeting Room, Bungay

Archaeological monitoring of the groundworks for the installation of toilets and the construction of a meeting room at St Mary's Church, Bungay produced evidence of a flint footing possibly for a previous version of the building together with an earlier clay floor. Burials that may pre-date the existing nave suggest that the current church encroached over part of the graveyard when it was re-built in the 15th century were also found, along with evidence of the remedial work carried out on the church after the great fire of Bungay in 1688. In the graveyard an earlier perimeter wall built just inside the current boundary was found. The earlier wall constructed in c.15th century was built over an existing burial without disturbing the skeletal remains and demonstrates how the graveyard edge has fluctuated over time (S1).