Monument record IPS 683 - Stoke Quay, Great Whip Street, Ipswich.

2005: Desk Based Assessment, (S5).

2001: Desk Based Assessment, (S6).

2011: Evaluation (IPS 643, recorded here) identified ditches, pits and finds dating to the Middle and Late Saxon periods and a Medieval cemetery(S1, S4).

2012: Full excavation (issued number IPS 683) revealed a late 7th/early 8th century cemetery including 7 small ring ditches (one with a sword and glass 'palm cup') and 11 inhumation burials with few grave goods , suggesting a relatively late transitional pagan/christian date. Also an Ipswich ware kiln and numerous Middle Saxon pits, wells,and post holes from structures are found across the site. Norman church of St Augustine (replacing earlier timber structure) and remainder of cemetery (at least 1000 burials) and numerous medieval and Saxon features. Medieval occupation traces across the whole site but concentrated close to Whip Street. The church was robbed of its stone after 1484 when last mentioned and replaced by the King's Cooperage in the 17th century and then a shipyard in the 18th century. The Union workhouse (replaced by malthouses by 1904) was constructed at the south end of the site and the New Cut excavated (1839-42) along the eastern boundary of the site.

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2012 (S10).

There is also a significant number of Terminal Palaeolithic "long blades" as well as Mesolithic to Iron Age flint material. Mostly residusal in other features, (S8, S9).

Final report forthcoming, summary in (S3, S2).

See also IPS 144, IPS 476, IPS 860, IPS 861
R3
St Augustines churchyard, 1312
Y33
St Austins church, 1311.

An evaluation in advance of development located an apparently unrecorded graveyard, thought to be related to the missing St Augustine’s/St Austin’s Church, in the N part of the site. Nearby pits and ditches apparently date to the middle and late Saxon periods. These incised features appear to occupy much of the middle and E portion of the site, while the S part of the site appears to have a less dense concentration of archaeological features, although an inhumation identified in this area could possibly be an outlier of another unrecorded graveyard – possibly a pauper’s graveyard connected to the workhouse or the medieval hospital that occupied land to the S of the development site.
Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2011 (S11).