Site Event/Activity record ESF22223 - Monitoring - West Stow Lodge, West Stow

Monitoring of trenching for the construction of a new residential property at West Stow Lodge, West Stow, Suffolk, following demolition to ground-level of a former dwelling, showed, despite heavy levels of disturbance, that the plot lay on a north-facing slope. The slope possibly descended into a natural channel associated with a stream to the north and a series of alluvial silt/sand/gravel deposits was seen to extend up to a depth of up to c.1.75m below ground-level. No finds material was seen or collected during the monitoring works to add to the fragments of human bone and sherds of medieval and Iron Age/Roman pottery identified in the earlier evaluation. This suggests they are isolated or redeposited finds, with the human bone in particular likely to have come from the adjacent medieval graveyard, there being no indication of an earlier or larger cemetery in the trenching.