Monument record WLB 111 - OUTLINE RECORD: multi-period occupation ACA Test pit event as part of the HEFA program (ACA) Test Pit

Twelve test pits were excavated in Walberswick. Roman pottery was recorded in the west of the village and opposite the church, which overall indicates some level of activity during this period. Four test pits yielded Late Anglo Saxon pottery, which with the previous Late Saxon pottery already recorded, indicates a cluster of activity forming around the green and extending southwest along The Street. This settlement continued to thrive into the medieval period as noted from previous years excavations, and the pottery evidence continues to suggest that Walberswick did not decline in the later medieval period after the Black Death, potentially due to its status as a coastal trading settlement. In the post medieval period the village may have developed into the small fishing village that is still seen today.

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2015 (S1).