Site Event/Activity record ESF22774 - Evaluation, Land Adjacent to Arden House, The Street, Fornham All Saints

PROJECT DETAILS The results of an evaluation by trial trench of land adjacent to Arden House, The Street, Fornham All Saints, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The site is situated in the immediate vicinity of the projected line of the Fornham Cursus (FAS 004), parts of which are a Scheduled Monument (SF 114). The cursus, formerly ditches and banks that are now visible as cropmarks, stretches for over a mile between Fornham and Hengrave. It would have been a significant Neolithic landscape feature and is interpreted as a processional way dating to 3500 - 3000BC. The evaluation trench was placed perpendicular to the expected orientation of the Fornham Cursus. No linear features were revealed and only a single anthropogenic feature was recorded in the form of a small post-hole of uncertain date. The general fill and character of this feature suggest that it may be prehistoric in date. A small number of residual prehistoric flints were collected, including a fresh flake from a natural feature and a weathered bladelet from the subsoil. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future No Associated Identifiers: HER event no. FAS 051 Contracting Unit No. NVC/2013/GE166 Planning Application No. SE/12/1235/FUL NMR No. 1591000 Project Type: Field evaluation Development Type: Rural residential Methods and Techniques: '''Targeted Trenches''' Position in the Planning Process: After outline determination (eg. As a reserved matter) Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Site status: None Current Land use: Residential 1 - General Residential Monument Type(s)/Period(s): POSTHOLE Neolithic Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): POTTERY Modern, FLINT Mesolithic, POTTERY Post Medieval , BURNT FLINT Neolithic, FLINT Neolithic PROJECT LOCATION Area 345.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TL83836763 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Planning Authority (with/without advice from County/District Archaeologist) Design originator: Norvic Archaeology Director/Manager: Giles Emery Supervisor: Giles Emery DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: SCCAS Contents: 'Survey' Media: 'Images raster / digital photography', 'Text' PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: SCCAS Contents: 'Survey' Media: 'Context sheet', 'Map', 'Plan', 'Report', 'Section' PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: SCCAS Contents: 'Ceramics', 'Worked stone/lithics' BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: An Archaeological Evaluation of Land Adjacent to Arden House, The Street, Fornham All Saints, Suffolk Author(s)/Editor(s): Emery, G. Other Bibliographic Details: Norvic Archaeology Report No. 34 Date: 2013 Issuer/Publisher: Norvic Archaeology Place of Issue or Publication: Norwich Description: Spiral bound