Monument record ERL 089 - RAF Lakenheath, Child Development Centre (Sax)

Archaeological excavation in advance of the construction of a new Child Development Centre at RAF Lakenheath revealed activity dating from the Mid Iron Age to Early Saxon periods. The main period of occupation, however, was the Late IA/early Rom period and the results of the archaeological work demonstrate agricultural landscape use comprising a trackway and associated fields, paddocks and pens. The track follows a similar alignment to that of the existing Lord's Walk and it is likely that this was a route to move livestock between winter pasture on the heath and summer pasture on the fen-edge. The system of gated and fenced pens and paddocks provides a means of singling animals out and controlling the flocks. This is certainly part of a larger pattern of landscape use and further work in this area can be expected to expand this picture (S1).


Assessment of the potential for the analysis and publication of the archaeologicial finds at RAF Lakenheath (S2).

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2001 (S4).