Site Event/Activity record ESF30456 - Desk Based Assessment - Route of the Barnham to Little Whelnetham Treated Water Main, Suffolk

This desk-based assessment considers the archaeological potential of the Barnham cross Water Treatment works to Little Welnetham Reservoir Treated Water Main. The pipeline starts in Thetford at Barnham Cross Water Treatment Works (NGR TL 87008 81645) within the southern part of Norfolk. It then runs through Suffolk terminating south-east of Bury St Edmunds at Little Welnetham Reservoir at NGR TL 89618 60287. This assessment only considers the 29km of this 31km scheme that lies in Suffolk The route runs, through the parishes of Barnham, Euston, Fakenham Magna, Sapiston, Bardwell, Ixworth, Pakenham, Great Barton, Thurston, Rougham, Rushbrooke, Bradfield St George to its destination close to the village of Little Whelnetham, Suffolk. The route runs across a rural landscape close to areas of high archaeological potential, notably the scheduled Roman villa and triple-ditched fort at Ixworth, the Roman barrow cemetery (part of which is scheduled) at Rougham and the adjacent Roman road which the route follows at the southern end of the scheme. There are remains of a number of archaeological remains from a range or periods recorded near to the site - prehistoric at Barnham, Euston, Fakenham Magna, Ixworth, and Pakenham; Roman at Fakenham Magna, Ixworth, Pakenham and Rougham; Saxon at Fakenham Magna and Ixworth; medieval at Fakenham Magna and Bardwell and post-medieval Fakenham Magna, Bardwell and Rougham.