Monument record BUN 109 - OUTLINE RECORD: Iron Age ditches and field boundary ditches and medieval ditch at Land West of St Johns Road, Bungay (PCA) GEO & EVAL

A c. 9ha site was subject to trial trench evaluation. The site is located on an east-facing hillside overlooking a steep-sided stream valley; the stream flows into the River Waveney just under a mile to the north. The evaluation identified two main areas of archaeological potential. On the high ground in the north-west of the site was an Iron Age (probably c. 350-50 BC) boundary ditch containing a dump of settlement waste including a large (for the period) assemblage of ironworking slag. Other features in this area, including a posthole, add to the picture of settlement activity. On the sloping ground in the southern half of the site was a broadly rectilinear system of field boundary ditches containing flint-tempered Iron Age pottery and later prehistoric (later-2nd- to 1st-millennium BC) struck flint. One 'kinked' field boundary/ drainage ditch in the south-west of the site was medieval in origin. A single natural geological feature, located on a sandy knoll in the centre of the southern part of the site, contained a small but homogenous assemblage of Mesolithic struck flint, probably representing some of the debris from an episode of flint-knapping, which became accidentally incorporated into the feature (S1).