Monument record HAD 145 - Iron Age and medieval field boundaries Hadleigh Quary (Phase 2), Peyton Hall Farm

2015: Excavation revealed a series of features interpreted as field boundaries, the majority of which dated from the medieval period. They suggest a pastoral economy was being practised. At least one group of ditches represented Iron Age boundary features and a single, un-urned cremation burial, radiocarbon dated to the Late Iron Age/ Early Roman period, was noted close to a junction of these boundaries. Fragments of a Late Iron Age iron brooch were also recovered from the burial. A group of possible medieval postholes were present and may be related to a simple, open-sided animal shelter. Evidence for occupation was present on site, near this structure. The occupation evidence was in the form of pottery, occasional animal bone along with fired clay and charcoal deposits that probably originated from domestic bread ovens. Features close to the southern boundary of the excavation site revealed medieval finds which suggest a possible medieval occupation site was located immediately to the south in the area that was quarried during the 1960s (S1).

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2015 (S2)