Site Event/Activity record ESF21659 - Monitoring at St Lucy, Church Road, Elmswell

Monitoring at St Lucy Church rd elmswell. During the monitoring, a cremation pit containing human charred bone was discovered. The cremation pit was located within a larger feature; possibly a pit or a ditch terminus as the larger feature did not extend beyond the cremation pit at ite northerly extent. Associated finds with the human remains were fragments of loom weights; pottery; worked flint and burnt flint. A C14 date gave the feauture a close dateing to around 900 BC; the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future No Associated Identifiers: HER event no. EWL 028 Planning Application No. 1675/11 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: '''Field observation''', '''Part Excavation''', '''Recorded Observation''', '''Watching Brief''' Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Site status: Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Current Land use: Other 5 - Garden Monument Type(s)/Period(s): CREMATION Late Prehistoric, FEATURE Uncertain Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): HUMAN BONE Late Prehistoric, LOOM WEIGHT Late Prehistoric PROJECT LOCATION Area 100.00 Square metres Grid References: TL983636 Point, TL983636 Point, TL983636 Point Height 27.00 - 29.00 metres PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: JUDITH PLOUVIEZ Director/Manager: DENNIS PAYNE Supervisor: DENNIS PAYNE DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: St Edmunsbury Museum ID: ELMSWELL/01 Contents: 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Human Bones', 'Stratigraphic', 'Worked stone/lithics' Media: 'Images raster / digital photography', 'Images vector', 'Survey', 'Text' PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: St Edmunsbury Museum ID: ELMSWELL/01 Contents: 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Human Bones', 'Stratigraphic', 'Worked stone/lithics' Media: 'Context sheet', 'Correspondence', 'Drawing', 'Map', 'Notebook - Excavation', ' Research', ' General Notes', 'Photograph', 'Plan', 'Report', 'Section', 'Unpublished Text' PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: St Edmunsbury Museum ID: ELMSWELL/01 Contents: 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Human Bones', 'Worked stone/lithics'