Site Event/Activity record ESF21594 - Desk Based Assessment at Thorington Hall, Pinewood

Desk based assessment, prior to a housing development. There is one known archaeological site within the PDA, WHR 023 the remains of a probable Bronze Age burial mound. The field named 'kiln field' identified in the documentary search indicates the potential for there to have been a kiln of some type within this area. The aerial photographic search located probable hand dug quarry pits and these could potentially be associated with the kiln. The aerial photographic survey also located a palaeo-channel running across the site from west to east. The PDA is 250m to the west of Bobbits Hole (SSSI) where Ipswichian interglacial (c.135,000-70,000BC) lake bed deposits were found. There is the potential that these deposits could continue into the PDA, possibly indicated in the results from Test pits 1, 9 and 10. In the spoil from Test pit 6 a Palaeolithic flint flake created during the manufacture of a hand-axe was recovered. The unworn condition of the flake indicates that it has not moved far from the original place in which it was deposited, suggesting that there could be further material of this date within the PDA. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future Yes Associated Identifiers: HER event no. PIN 001 NMR No. 1566196 Project Type: Desk based assessment Development Type: Housing estate Methods and Techniques: '''Documentary Search''', '''Aerial Photography - interpretation''', '''Visual Inspection''' Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Site status: None Current Land use: Vacant Land 2 - Vacant land not previously developed Monument Type(s)/Period(s): NONE None Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): NONE None PROJECT LOCATION Area 4.00 Hectares Grid Reference: TM14404157 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Planning Authority (with/without advice from County/District Archaeologist) Design originator: Jess Tipper Director/Manager: John Newman Supervisor: James Rolfe BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Archaeological Desk Based Assessment, Thorington Hall, Pinewood, Suffolk Author(s)/Editor(s): Rolfe, J. Other Bibliographic Details: 2008/199 Date: 2008 Issuer/Publisher: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service Place of Issue or Publication: Bury st Edmunds