Site Event/Activity record ESF26213 - Evaluation - Land off Station Road, Lakenheath

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Location

Location Land North of Station Road, Lakenheath.
Grid reference Centred TL 7196 8389 (260m by 209m)
Map sheet TL78SW
Civil Parish LAKENHEATH, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

Suffolk Archaeology CIC

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

Eighteen machine cut trial trenches, each 30m in length (4% sample). The evaluation area comprises part of a larger area that had been subject to a geophysics survey and a previous phase of trial trench evaluation at a much lower density. The trenches revealed a natural subsoil (c.1.2-1.6m deep) consisting of yellow to orange gravelly sand or chalk. In the majority of trenches this lay just below the modern topsoil at a depth of c.0.35m. Evidence for truncation of the surface of the natural subsoil, in the form of plough lines, was present in most trenches. Frequent field drains form of stone filled slots were also present (S1).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Unpublished document: Sommer, M.. 2018. Archaeological Evaluation Report: New School at Land North of Station Road.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Probable post medieval pit and ditch, land off Station Road, Lakenheath (Monument)

Record last edited

Jul 26 2018 9:40AM

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