Site Event/Activity record ESF20848 - Excavation Land at Shrubbery Farm, Hubbard's Lane, Hessett

The site is located to the east of Shrubbery Farm and on the southern edge of the modern village. The geological stratum is glacial till. Six worked flints of later prehistoric date and a small sherd of flint-tempered prehistoric pottery were recovered as residual finds in later deposits. Seven fragments of Late Saxon pottery were found in a post-medieval ploughsoil and a Middle Saxon copper-alloy ansate brooch was found in the topsoil. The earliest clear evidence for activity on the site is from the medieval period, principally the 12th-14th centuries. Several ditches produced small amounts of domestic pottery and other artefacts suggesting that there was occupation on or close to the site: A substantial north-south ditch is interpreted as a boundary at the rear of one or more properties (farms or crofts) that fronted on Hessett Green, to the west of the site. Other ditches to the east of the boundary ditch are interpreted as boundary / drainage features associated with a medieval field system. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous Yes, Future No Associated Identifiers: NMR No. 1534675 HER event no. HTT 020 Planning Application No. 1087/05 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: Open-area excavation Reason for Investigation: Planning condition Monument Type(s)/Period(s): DITCHES Medieval , DITCH Uncertain, DITCH Post Medieval , PIT Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): KEY Medieval , POTTERY Medieval , QUERN Medieval PROJECT LOCATION Area 5000.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TL93686116 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: Jess Tipper Director/Manager: Andrew Tester Supervisor: Kieron Heard DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: HTT 020 Contents: Animal Bones, Ceramics, Environmental, Industrial, Metal, Stratigraphic Media: Database, Images raster / digital photography, Survey, Text PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: HTT 020 Contents: Stratigraphic Media: Context sheet, Plan, Report, Section PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: HTT 020 Contents: Ceramics, Industrial, Metal, Animal Bones BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Post-excavation Assessment Report: Land at Shrubbery Farm, Hubbard's Lane, Hessett, Suffolk Author(s)/Editor(s): Heard, K. Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS report number 2009/291 Date: 2011 Issuer/Publisher: Suffolk County Council Place of Issue or Publication: Ipswich Description: A4, 90 pages, wire-bound