Monument record PIN 010 - Bronze Age to Iron Age occupation features at Belstead House, Sprites Lane, Pinewood, Ipswich (ASE) GEO & EVAL

2015: a fluxgate gradiometer survey recorded a number of linear/curvilinear trends in the western part of the site. Some exhibited limited potential as buried ditches (S1).

2019:Twenty-nine trenches were excavated across the site. Five trenches contained archaeological features, predominantly postholes and some pits, concentrated in the south and west of the site. Two scrapers and fifteen unmodified pieces of flint débitage, including six flakes, two blades and three blade-like flakes, were recovered from a cluster of ephemeral pits in two trenches in the west of the site, all tentatively assigned a broad Mesolithic-Neolithic date. A high density of Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age features (1150-600BC) was recorded in the south, at the base of the slope occupied by the site. A concentration of twenty postholes in two trenches exhibited no distinct clusters or alignments but were speculated to constitute one or more post-built buildings. The presence of a high frequency of burnt/overfired pottery fragments in the assemblage recovered from one posthole possibly constituted pottery wasters and therefore evidence for production in the vicinity (S2).