Monument record KSS 113 - The Nordalls, Kessingland

2016: Excavation revealed evidence for medieval settlement in the form of a clay and flint built structure and proposed puddling pit with an associated feature; ovens or corn driers, a ditch, post-holes, pits, occupational deposits and redeposited geological clay. The evidence is indicative of domestic activity, including manufacturing, food processing and storage, between the 12th-14th century and suggests that occupation appeared to cease during the 15th-16th centuries. The 15th-16th centuries were represented by a pit containing pottery, animal remains a piece of iron and two shells. Colluvium deposits were revealed and tentatively assigned a prehistoric date. Five unstratified worked flints were recovered; a side scraper and blade typologically dated at Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic; 1 core and two flakes typologically dated to the late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age. Several undated ditches and pits were also revealed (S2).

2016: Evaluation revealed an earthwork of a woodbank demonstrating a managed landscape, surface deposits consisting of rammed, re-deposited geological clay, a formation flint nodules, and an enlongated terminus feature which contained areas of in-situ buring that may be remains of a kiln or oven. Sherds of medieval pottery c12-14th century were recovered from the features (S1).
Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2016 (incorrectly listed as KSS 133) (S3)