Monument record EBG 060 - Land east of Constable Country Medical Centre, Heath Road

2017: Evaluation uncovered twenty-eight features which originated from the post-medieval or modern periods, or else were undated: one pit/posthole, three linear features, one silt patch, three ditches, three pits, one probable kiln/pit, two linear features, pits, three land drains and three natural features as well as one possible feature/silt patch and one possible linear feature. Two of these features appear to represent the remains of the southern boundary ditch of a field named 'Megs Well' which is detailed in the 1837 tithe map of East Bergholt. An interesting clustering of features to the southeast of the site include the remains of the probable kiln, indicating that brick manufacture most likely took place (S1)

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2017(S2).

2021-Excavation recorded a heavily robbed, three-flued brick kiln surviving only as footings, and fronted by a large rake-out pit. There were two brick types in the kiln structure – unfrogged early 19th-century types and frogged examples of the mid-19th-century. The kiln is absent on both the 1838 Tithe map and the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey sheet of 1887. Evidence therefore suggests it was originally constructed circa 1840, repaired in frogged brick c.1850-60, and abandoned and infilled before the 1876-1884 survey for the OS map.

Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2021 (S3).