Monument record BSE 219 - 44-47 St Andrews Street

August 2003: Evaluation by trenching located a large late medieval or early post-medieval posthole building. The building was constructed around earth fast posts which were packed with clay and cut into a garden soil containing 13th-14th century pottery. The tops of the postholes were truncated by a layer which included late 17th-early 18th century pottery and fragments of coal. Thomas Warren's 1747 Map of the town shows a long range built against the norther boundary of this site. The town wall had already been knocked down when this map was drawn. A large medieval rubbish pit and an area of imported gravel, possibly evidence of a trackway, were also seen beneath the medieval garden soil. The trackway runs N-S inside the line of the town defences (S1).

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2003 (S2).