Monument record LKH 637 - OUTLINE RECORD: Iron Age ditches and structural features and Roman ditches, 2 probable inhumation burials at RAF Lakenheath Hooch (CAS) EXC

Excavation in advance of re-laying of a car park exposed an area of multiperiod activity adjacent to areas previously investigated under site codes LKH 207, LKH 225, LKH 365, and outside of a boundary with multiple cuts deemed to represent the formal boundary of the Roman settlement. The majority of features identified were intercutting ditches oriented NS and EW, dated to the Middle to Later Iron Age. 2 probable graves were recorded based on their shape and fill, but bone was too poorly preserved to confirm that they were burials. Closely spaced stake-holes in the bottom of 2 of the steeper-sided ditches showed these to be palisades with a wooden fence. Consistent with the location outside the core of Roman settlement, the intensity of activity appeared to lessen during the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods with only small quantities of material datable to these periods recovered (including some Middle Saxon Ipswich Ware and a 9th–11th-century copper hairpin). The most significant individual find was an Iron Age coin, a silver unit of Ecen, AD 10–45
Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2021 (S2).