Monument record MNL 556 - College Heath Road

Full excavation of clay and chalk semi-detached cottages and timber framed outbuildings. Also Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age buried soil horizon (S3). Report O/S (Sept 2008) as monitoring ongoing.
See MNL 503 for preceeding evaluation (S1, S2).

Excavations in advance of a proposed housing development revealed the site of a clay and chalk dwelling and associated out buildings (Fig. 9). The plan of the house suggested that it was a pair of semi-detached cottages built around a shared central chimney. The halves of the building were symmetrical and mirrored, each consisting of two rooms; the combined length was 13m and the width 4.5m.
Two ancillary buildings based on earthfast posts, one 6m x 2.5m built around six posts, the other 2.5m square and built around four posts, were also found and the whole group of buildings was enclosed by a possible hurdle fence. Pottery, and bricks from the hearth, suggest a 16th-17th century date for the buildings.
A buried soil horizon produced a good assemblage of late Neolithic/early Bronze Age flintwork. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2005 (S4).