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Report Title

New Access Control, Gate 2, RAF Lakenheath, ERL 120

Publisher and Publication Year

Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service - 2005

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Summary

Summary An archaeological excavation was carried out in advance of a new access control area at Gate 2, Lord's Walk, RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk. In total, an area of 4058 sqm was excavated and this revealed four main phases of activity. The first phase was a large, discrete, cluster of 22 pits, dating from the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age. The majority of these pits were uniformly filled with large quantities of Beaker pottery sherds, worked flints and deposits of charcoal. A second phase of limited occupation in the Iron Age period, with three large pits, was followed by a third Late Iron Age/Early Roman phase, consisting of a trackway and an associated network of ditches. This is a continuation of the field system identified at ERL 089, 200m to the east, and can probably be associated with the nearby settlement at Caudle Head mere. The southern ditch of the trackway has a definite kink in its course, avoiding the phase I pit group, indicating that some trace of these features may st have been visible. In general the line of the trackway corresponds closely with the course of the modern Lords Walk road, implying that this is an ancient route to move livestock between winter pasture on the heathland to the east, and summer pasture to the west on the fen-edge. A final fourth phase of activity is formed by a small group of mostly post-medieval metallic objects recovered from a small spread of subsoil by metal detecting. A range of miscellaneous undated pits and ditches were scattered across the site and are most likely to be contemporary with phases I to III. SMR information Planning application no. Pre-planning Date of fieldwork: 29th August 2002 ­ 2nd September 2002 Grid Reference: TL 72377996 Oasis Reference: Suffolkc1-6115 Funding body: MoD Defence Estates (USF) 1 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

Summary 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. Results 3.1 General 3.2 Phase I (Late Neolithic/Early
3.3 Phase II (Iron Age) 3.4 Phase III (Late Iron Age/Roman) 3.5 Phase IV (Post-Medieval) 3.6 Unphased 4. The Finds (Sue Anderson, Cathy Tester,
4.1 Introduction 4.2 Pottery 4.2.1 Prehistoric pottery 4.2.2 Roman pottery 4.3 Ceramic Building Material (CBM) 4.4 Lava quern 4.5 Flint 4.5.1 Worked Flint 4.5.2 Burnt flint/stone 4.6 Small Finds 4.7 Biological Evidence 4.6.1 Animal bone 4.6.2 Charcoal 4.6.3 Plant Macrofossils 4.8 Discussion of the finds evidence 5. General Discussion 5.1 General 5.2 Phase I (Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age 5.3 Phase II (Iron Age) 5.4 Phase III (Late Iron Age/Roman) 5.5 Phase IV (Post-Medieval) 5.6 Phase IV (Unphased) 6. Conclusions 7. Recommendations
Appendices 1. Context list 2. Finds lists 2.1 Bulk Finds List 2.2 Pottery 2.3 Flint 3. Photo catalogue 4. Archive index List of Figures 1. Site location plan 2. Location of nearby sites 3. Site plan 4. Phases I and II plan 5. Plan of pit group 0162 6. Phase I sections 7. Phase II sections 8. Phases IIIa and IIIb plan 9. Phase IIIa sections 10. Phase IIIb sections 11. Unphased features plan 12. Unphased ditch sections 13. Unphased pit and posthole sections 14. Arrowhead from pit f 0164 15. Selection of scrapers from pit f 0184 16. Trackway ditches in ERL 120, ERL 112
List of Tables 1. Finds quantities 2. Quantity and weight of pottery by period. 3. Quantities and weights of Later

Headings

17. ERL 089 and 0120 track alignments in
6. Flint by type
7. Plant macrofossils etc. from Early Bronze
List of Contributors
Donna Wreathall Archaeological Illustrator
Acknowledgements
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3.1. General
3.4. Phase III: Late Iron Age/Roman
3.5. Phase IV: Post Medieval
4. Finds and environmental evidence
Sue Anderson
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Pottery
4.2.1 Prehistoric pottery
Introduction
Methodology
Later Neolithic/Early Bronze Age
Fabric
Deposition
Dating and Affinities
Bronze Age
Iron Age
4.2.2 Roman pottery
4.3 Ceramic Building Material (CBM)
4.4 Lava quern
4.5 Flint
4.5.1 Worked flint
Methodology
Distribution
Discussion
4.5.2 Burnt flint/stone
4.6 Small Finds
4.7 Biological evidence
4.7.1 Animal bone
4.7.2 Charcoal
4.7.3 Plant macrofossils
Introduction
Methods
Discussion
4.8 Discussion of the finds evidence
5. General Discussion
5.1. General
5.2. Phase I: Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age
5.3. Phase II: Iron Age
5.4. Phase III: Late Iron Age/ Early Roman
5.5. Phase IV: Post-Medieval
5.6. Unphased
6. Conclusions
7. Recommendations
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