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The footprint for a proposed extension to 'The Barn' at Leiston Abbey was stripped of its overburden with a view to revealing any archaeological deposits. Part of Scheduled Monument.

Founded 1182 on a site about 2 miles away nearer the sea (see LCS 002) as a Premonstratensian house, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, by Ranulf de Glanville, Henry II's chief Justicier. listed building scheduled scheduled.

A Second World War Auxiliary Unit Operational Base has been recorded at this location, from documentary evidence, oral history and investigations on the ground. However, see LCS 184 for an alternative location for this site, on Leiston Common itself ...

Leiston town gas works (S1)(R1). Formerly recorded as LCS MISC

Site of railway station and goods shed, built 1859. Station and line closed by 1994 (S2). Present condition unknown (possibly converted to housing).

Scatter of mainly LMed metalwork including Henry VII half groat, Nuremburg type jettons and one French jetton, a hinged gilded mount, a coin weight (French).

Monitoring of groundworks identified red brick footings likely to be associated with a building which formerly fronted George Street and a large undated probable extraction pit.

A length of a possible Medieval or Post Medieval relict sea bank is visible on aerial photographs located in the salt marsh of the Butley River, Chillesford parish

Length of road, circa 2730m.

C.40m length of bank. E-W