Monument record KCC 050 - OUTLINE RECORD: Geophysical Survey and Excavation? by Suffolk Archaeological Field Group

Magnetometer survey of a meadow showed a 44m x 17m ditched enclosure with extensive areas of noise indicating hearths and other fired areas. The meadow location, with access to main pond and hypothesized hunting area, indicated that this site might contain workshops supporting park functions. A 2m x 3m trench was excavated within this feature. A stone surface was found at a depth of nominally 25cm from the meadow surface. The soil surface sloped towards the Fromus river, whilst the stone surface had a steeper slope to the river. Medieval pottery sherds of C13th/14th and bone, including that of deer, were in the soil above the stone surface and embedded in the top of the stone surface. Sampling with a metal rod indicates that the stone surface probably exists throughout the large majority of the feature. The feature appears to be a stone surface of some 700sqm, deliberately sloping towards the river, with strong evidence of medieval age. The nature of the finds and the proximity to the deer park and the fish ponds indicate that it may have been a processing area, draining off to the river (S1).

Magnetometry survey of land adjacent to and at the centre of the site of Kelsale Medieval Park. Evidence of possible post holes in a hypothesized hunt area and a rectangular enclosure in the reserve entrance meadow. A small trench to date the enclosure found a cobbled surface, bone fragments, including some from deer, and many pot fragments, tentatively identified as 14thC and earlier (S2)