Monument record CSM 041 - Iron Age ovens and enclosure, The White House Mill Hill Caple St Mary

Evaluation and excavation identified a large ditch and three ovens (S1).

2014: An excavation revealed six phases of activity from the late Iron Age to the modern period, perhaps the most significant of which was the remains of an early Roman corridor villa building dating to the mid-1st century AD. A large Iron Age enclosure ditch was located within the eastern side of the excavation area and the villa building is likely to have replaced a small late Iron Age farming settlement. The presence of three temporary late Iron Age/early Roman bipartite ovens suggested this area of the site was used for low level food production after the infilling of the Iron Age enclosure ditch, but just prior to construction of the villa building and revealed a rare insight into early post-conquest site activity. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2014 (S2). Full report to follow.