Monument record FRT 060 - Sparce 18th -19th century artefact scatter

Sparce multi period artefact scatter identified through systematic fieldwalking (S1).

2018: A 10-day fieldwalking project was undertaken (by a team of two) off Latimer Field, due S of the Neolithic interrupted ditch system (FRT 005). The aim of the project was to investigate related prehistoric activities. A small quantity of Neolithic flaked stone was recovered across the field, including a scraper and two denticulates; one D-shaped gunflint was also found, of likely 17th–18th-century date. The dominant finds were post-medieval glazed sherds, roof-tile and glass, whose even distribution across the field suggests strongly that they were introduced as a by-product of agricultural practices, specifically field manuring, rather than relating to local domestic activities. Tristan Carter, McMaster University, funded by an International Initiatives Micro Fund.
Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2018. (S2)