Monument record TMW 016 - Early to Middle Romano British Settlement activity on land At Place Farm The Street

2020: The Evaluation trenches 26 and 27 and excavation area B and C located on Land at Place Farm, revealed a group of Romano-British settlement remains possibly of a peripheral part of a Early to Middle Roman Farmstead. This was represented by a ditched enclosure or field defined by three linear ditches on north to south and east to west alignments. These formed a rectilinear enclosure of at least 60m by 40m which extended beyond the limits of the excavation. At the excavations northern end further was a set of smaller linear ditches and slightly curvilinear gullies with a number of discrete and intercutting pits. Towards the southern end of this groups was a wide and shallow linear feature extending south west to north east which contained a quern fragment, horse bone and 15 residual worked flints. Two groups of post hole clusters were also identified which may have been Romano-British in origin but no artefactutral evidence was recovered from the fills. Pottery recovered from the features indicated a date of between c.AD.70-200, c.AD.50-200 and c.AD70-400. <S1>

2020: Evaluation and subsequent excavation revealed five areas of later prehistoric and Romano-British features along the route of a proposed service trench. Within a tributary valley at the N end of the scheme, many pits were uncovered in Areas A and B, probably representing an E-ward extension of Neolithic to Iron Age settlement activity previously excavated at Ingham Quarry. To the S, Area C investigated Romano-British settlement remains, probably one part of an Early to Middle Roman farmstead. Overlooking the river Lark at the S end of the scheme, Areas D and E encountered further settlement remains, which add to previously identified areas of later prehistoric occupation excavated at Fornham Park and Ingham Quarry. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2020 (S2). Full report to follow.