Monument record PKM 027 - Ixworth Repeater Station, Pakenham

Area examined on route of Ixworth by-pass, N of main site (see PKM 005). Trenches revealed a substantial layer of modern rubble dumping, below which most of the area is also covered in hillwashed brown soil. Rom pottery found in basal part of hillwash, features (a small linear feature and stake holes) were only found on S edge of area (S1). A section was also opened in the N of the area for environmental sampling of deposits on edge of Mickel Mere (S5) - a monolith sample taken examined for plant macrofossils etc., also C14 dating. This showed a reduction in soil disturbance, i.e. probably less intense farming in the immediate post-Roman period, followed by renewed activity in C7 (S2). Similar evidence of two phases of agricultural activity in pollen (S3).
See SCCAS Report 99/11 - Roman pottery, ditches and coins (S4) found in monitoring of area.

Archaeological monitoring of construction work south-east of Ixworth revealed a probable 2nd- century Roman ditch and two small pits beneath a Roman occupation soil. These features and deposits undoubtedly relate to the Roman small town centred to the immediate S.W. of the site. The monitoring has extended the confirmed area of Roman activity associated with the small town. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 1999 (S6).