Site Event/Activity record ESF22969 - Rapid Earthwork Survey, Icknield Heath, Icklingham

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Location

Location
Grid reference Centred TL 8077 7595 (938m by 782m)
Map sheet TL87NW
Civil Parish ICKLINGHAM, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

Brian Cushion

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

The survey was undertaken to provide information for an Environmental Stewardship Scheme (Higher Level Stewardship), which is to involve heathland restoration of a c. 40ha block within an extensive Forestry Commission area. Surface vegetation at the dates of survey 12th and 22nd march 2015, consisted of c.2ha of extant conifers in the north, an area of c. 6 ha of mown grass in the south, with the remaining area of longer grass with existing stumps and brash (S1).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Unpublished document: Cushion, B.. 2015. Archaeological Earthwork Rapid Identification Survey, Icknield Heath (Part)..

Related Monuments/Buildings (3)

  • Boundary bank and depression earthworks, Icknield Heath RIS, Icklingham (Monument)
  • Compartment 5140, Kings Forest (Monument)
  • Icknield Way; Weststow Road (1880s) (Un) (Monument)

Record last edited

Apr 25 2018 2:30PM

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