Monument record BSE 213 - 6 Cannon Street

Monitoring revealed a pit which was filled with a dark brown loam with fragments of burnt clay, possibly hearth or oven debris. A trowel run across the face of the pit produced a single sherd handmade gritty pottery, possibly of Early Saxon (5th-7th c.) or Early Medieval date (11th-12th c.), and a fragment of chalk-tempered fired clay was also collected. Although the pit cannot be dated with certainty, the colour, texture and clay content of this feature is consistent with that of Early Medieval cess pits excavated elsewhere in the town, notably High Baxter Street (S1).

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