Monument record RLM 071 - Prehistoric, Roman and medieval material and undated ditches, pits and possible structure on Hut Field, Rendlesham.

May 2015. Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Beauty National Mapping Programme.
The cropmarks of undated and fragmentary ditches are faintly visible on aerial photographs (S1-S2). Other cropmarks were visible within the area of this field but were not mapped due to uncertainty over their archaeological origin.
S. Horlock (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 1st May 2015.

2023: Rendlesham Revealed community archaeology project.
A magnetometer survey was carried out by volunteers from the Suffolk Archaeological Field Group, as part of the Rendlesham Revealed community archaeology project, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The results included circular responses likely to be pits that are consistent with those beneath sunken featured buildings as seen in the field NW of the area. Multiple linear features could represent multiperiod ditches and ditched enclosures. There is a large 30m circular feature which is also visible as a cropmark on aerial photography. A square-shaped response 11m by 11m and adjacent magnetic noise consistent with demolition debris could indicate a possible structure. This is in an area of Roman finds. The results also suggest other structures and a possible post-hole building on the field. (S3) (S4).

Following the magnetometry survey, a fieldwalking survey was conducted by a team of volunteers led by a PhD student from University of East Anglia. A total of 498 prehistoric worked flint was found scattered across the area with concentrations in the northeast and southeast of the survey area, including waste flakes, blades and scrapers, along with burned flint. Three fragments of later prehistoric pottery were found. A thin scatter of Roman and medieval material, with a distinct concentration in the E of the site, suggests that the field was likely cultivated in these periods. The Roman material included a small quantity of ceramic building material and a larger assemblage of pottery, mostly greywares, some Oxford ware and Horningsea-type ware. Vessel forms represented included storage jars and straight-sided bowls. The medieval pottery mostly dates to the 12th–14th centuries. The majority of material recovered dated to the post-medieval period, including a high quantity of ceramic building material and some pottery dating from the 16th to 20th centuries, likely derived from manuring and cultivation (S3) (S5).