Site Event/Activity record ESF22635 - Monitoring at Radford House, No.54 St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds

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Location

Location Radford House, 54 St John’s Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Grid reference Centred TL 8529 6469 (12m by 9m)
Map sheet TL86SE
Civil Parish BURY ST EDMUNDS, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

Norvic Archaeology

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

Norvic Archaeology was commissioned to undertake archaeological monitoring of groundworks associated with the construction of a cartlodge at the rear of No.54 St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds (Planning Ref. SE/12/1641/HHLBCA and APP/E3525/D/13/2197423). Natural sand was revealed at a depth of 1.6m at the eastern end of the footings and 1.25m in the western corner of the footings trench. This was a very soft and fine pale-yellow sand which appeared to be aeolian rather than fluvial in nature. Above the natural was a soft, mid orangey brown silty sand with occasional stones and rare flecks of charcoal lower subsoil between 0.15m and 0.3m in depth. The upper subsoil was 0.5m-0.6m deep subsoil was recorded from which post-medieval pottery was collected. The upper most soil horizon was a 19th-20th century sandy loam flecked by chalk, brick and mortar. It measured c.0.3m deep and was sealed below 0.2m of modern makeup (S1).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Unpublished document: Emery, G.. 2014. Archaeological Monitoring Report, Radford House, No.54 St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Medieval pit, Radford House, No. 54 St John's Street (Monument)

Record last edited

Aug 22 2022 4:33PM

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