Site Event/Activity record ESF25819 - Excavation - Eye Airfield, Eye

2017-2018: Between September 2017 and March 2018 Oxford Archaeology East (OA East) carried out two separate phases of excavation at Eye Airfield Industrial Estate, near Yaxley in Suffolk. The location of each excavation area was based on the results of previous stages of evaluation (conducted by OA East in June 2017). Areas 2A and 2B (totalling 0.451ha) were located immediately due north of Castleton Way and immediately due east of the A140 roadway. Excavation was undertaken between 25th September – 22nd October 2017. Following this, Area 3 (totalling 1.53ha) was stripped and excavated between 6th November 2017 and 20th March 2018, located in the north of the development area and immediately to the east of the old Eye airfield runway. Before spoil stripping occurred a 2m2 chequerboard grid measuring 12m x 12m was set out across the plough-soil above the burnt mound in Area 3 Ten litres of plough-soil from each square was collected and dry-sieved through a 1.5cm mesh to record the weight and density of burnt flint in this horizon. (S1, S2)