Monument record OFF 027 - Artefact scatter of late Saxon/early Medieval and Pmed Pottery + Pmed Brick with burnt Flint.

One visit was made when the groundwork for the retaining wall was well underway. The house is situated towards the bottom of a small valley and faces soutwest where it fronts onto the Ipswich Road. The garden to the rear of the property rises sharply to the northeast of the with a steep slope that rises 4/5m over a distance of c25m.
While ground conditions were dry visibillity was good and the exposed section along the slope revealed some 300/400mm of sandy topsoil over 1/1.5m of sandy subsoil hillwash lying on on sand/gravel natural drit geology. Within the hillwash layer Pmed brick/tile fragments and 18C+ sherds could be seen close to its base and no layer differentiation could be observed from top to bottom. No features could be seen below the hillwash layer. In addition 2 sherds (54g) of earlier date were found in the spoil, one is a slightly abraded greyware body sherd which could be Thetford type ware of late Saxon/Early Medieval date, and the other is an unglazed redware strap handle, probably of late Medieval and Transitional ware type of 15/16th century date. Finally the spoil also contained a few heavily burnt flints of unknown date. (S1)