Site Event/Activity record ESF23753 - Excavation, Lower Brook Street/Foundation Street, Ipswich, (IAS 5505).

Circumstances of excavation Redevelopment of the former Rands and Jeckell site, at the junction of Foundation Street and Lower Brook Street, provided an opportunity to sample an area lying at the junction of two important early streets. The site was excavated in 1988 by the Suffolk Archaeological Unit. Site constraints The excavation was limited to an area, up to 8m north-south (NE-SW) by 5m east-west (SE-NW), by the redevelopment programme, depth of overburden and cellars along the whole eastern side of the site (which formed the east (SE) side of the excavation). The small area excavated and the lack of finds in many features (11 of the 32) renders satisfactory interpretation difficult.