Monument record BUX 026 - OUTLINE RECORD: FENN HALL (001) - EXCAVATION

The partial excavation of the moated platform was undertaken in advance of the construction of a new house; an area of 1100 sqm was opened – just over half of the total. A group of small ovens, probably for baking bread, alongside an area of pitting indicated that service activities occurred, suggesting that the platform may have been zoned according to activity. An extensive spread of flint cobbling was interpreted as yards and paths were also found, but no indication of the hall building that was thought to have occupied the site. The cut-off date of the finds suggests that occupation of the moated platform ceased during the 15th-16th century and moved to a position just outside the eastern arm of the moat, where the recently demolished Fenn Hall and the remains of a large mid-16th-century barn are sited. Sections excavated across each arm of the moat ditch showed that it had been desilted in the recent past removing any earlier archaeological deposits. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2005 (S1)