Monument record FLN 011 - Flixton Park

Single ring ditch, circa 20m in diameter, noted from AP (S1). NAU AP 21 July 1977, NGR TM 3076 8685 (S3).
November 1995: re-sited from TM 3084 8685 to TM 3085 8684.
A ring ditch, possibly the remains of a barrow of Bronze Age date, is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark in the parkland of Flixton Hall, centred on circa TM 308864. The cropmark of the ditch is under two metres wide and encloses a central area approximately 17 metres in diameter. A linear cropmark, possibly a field boundary of later date, abuts the ring ditch on its south-western side. A second similarly sized ring-ditch is also visible to the south west (FLN 012). (S5)

2006: Soil-stripping at the eastern end of the quarry to provide material for a bund revealed a previously known ring-ditch (FLN 011) which was subsequently excavated under the site code for the whole area, FLN 086.
The 19m-diameter ring-ditch was found to be 1m wide and 0.8m deep and had a V-shaped profile. The ditch did not describe a perfect circle, but was made up of a series of straighter sections that together formed an angled shape with approximately eight facets. Finds recovered from the fill were limited to generally undiagnostic worked flints and a few sherds of prehistoric pot. No associated burial or other features were identified internal to the ring-ditch although it is still presumed to represent the ploughed-out remains of an Early Bronze Age round barrow.
Other features recorded included a large pit, probably of post-medieval date and the flanking ditches and rutted metalled surface of the pre-late 19th century Flixton to Homersfield Road. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2006 (S6). Full report to follow.