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Lots of medieval pottery seen in council house front gardens some years earlier when decorating houses (S1).

Trackway running NW-SE (past Chilton Church to Chilton Grange) visible on APs.

Trenched evaluation in advance of residential development to rear of County Hall building revealed evidence for Saxon activity in an area fronting onto Bond Street.

Evaluation recorded a series of (field boundary/drainage?) ditches containing Med pottery.

Two large flint cores were found with the frontal bone of Bos primigenius [aurochs] in shelly marl below peat

Class B2 cauldron fragment from near Ipswich in British Museum. Pair of staples and rings (5 1/4 inches) with fragment of cauldron; ring of T shaped section.

Partially excavated large curving MBA/LBA ditched enclosure with associated trackway, roundhouses & post alignments.

The County Gaol (now called The Fort) was designed by George Byfield in 1805 and enlarged under the supervision of William Wilkins in 1821, to incorporate most of the additional features advocated by John Orridge, the Governor, when he designed a pri...

April 1996: Fieldwalking (& auger) survey of circa 10 ha field located thin scatter of abraded Med pottery.

April 1996: Fieldwalking (& auger) survey of circa 10 ha field located broadly spread but nonetheless relatively dense scatter of burnt & worked flints and two sherds prehistoric pottery.