Site Event/Activity record ESF21915 - Excavation, ERL 148, Liberty Village, RAF Lakenheath, Eriswell

PROJECT DETAILS The first phase was a funerary complex consisting of an Early Bronze Age ring ditch and associated inhumation burials. The ring ditch (ERL 148) enclosed an area 21.5m in diameter and was 4.6m wide and 1.25m deep. The ditch showed two distinctive periods of infilling, the final stages containing small amounts of Roman material suggesting the monument was still partially visible at this time. A central grave contained the remains of four individuals. The primary burial was a crouched female following which the grave was infilled and then re-cut for the burial of a c.16 year old female, then an infant with a small pottery vessel. The semi-articulated remains of an elderly female and a cremated pig were identified in the upper fills of the grave. A cremation burial within a possible pond barrow was identified lying to the south of the western ring ditch. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous Yes, Future No Associated Identifiers: Planning Application No. F/2004/0093/GOV HER event no. ERL147 HER event no. ERL 148 Related HER No. ERL 203 NMR No. 1431513 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: '''Full excavation''' Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Site status: Military Base Current Land use: Residential 1 - General Residential Monument Type(s)/Period(s): CROUCHED INHUMATION Early Bronze Age , RING DITCH Early Bronze Age , Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): , WORKED FLINT Late Prehistoric, POTTERY Roman, HUMAN REMAINS Early Bronze Age , POTTERY Early Bronze Age PROJECT LOCATION Area 1.03 Hectares Grid References: TL72857988 Point, TL72587982 Point Height 14.00 - 25.00 metres PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, Field Team Director/Manager: Jo Caruth Supervisor: John Craven DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR Contents: 'Animal Bones', 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Human Bones', 'Metal', 'Worked stone/lithics' Media: 'Database', 'GIS', 'Images raster / digital photography', 'Spreadsheets', 'Text' PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR Contents: 'Animal Bones', 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Human Bones', 'Metal', 'Worked stone/lithics' Media: 'Aerial Photograph', 'Context sheet', 'Drawing', 'Map', 'Photograph', 'Plan', 'Report', 'Section' PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR Contents: 'Animal Bones', 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Human Bones', 'Metal', 'Worked stone/lithics' BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Liberty Village, RAF Lakenheath, Eriswell, ERL 143, ERL 147, ERL 148 and ERL 203 Author(s)/Editor(s): Craven, J. A. Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS Report No. 2012/038 Date: 2012 Issuer/Publisher: SCCAS Place of Issue or Publication: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Description: SCCAS Excavation assessment report