Monument record LMD 194 - Mid-Late Iron Age/Roman ditches and a Roman field system

Excavation during groundworks for the installation of a pipeline revealed a group of ditches dating from the Mid-Late Iron Age to the mid 2nd century AD. These features contanined quite a high proportion of artefacts suggesting intensive manuring of arable fileds and a farming settlement in the immedieate area. This arable land use did not appear to last beyond the mid 2nd century. Elements of the Roman field boundaries appear to be still evident in the modern landscape however suggesting the land use reverated to pastoral until the post-medieval period (S1).

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2013 (S2)