Site Event/Activity record ESF22147 - Excavation, Half Moon Public House, Lakenheath.

PROJECT DETAILS Phases of evaluation and excavation fieldwork were carried out at the former Half Moon pub in Lakenheath, Suffolk. The site is located towards the northern end of Lakenheath village, flanked by the High Street to the east. Prior to the groundworks the site had remained somewhat undisturbed as part of the pub car park. Small quantities of Neolithic flint were found underneath the peat that overlaid the natural. Underlying the peat was a series of small pits and possible postholes that produced no datable material. 11th/12th century pottery was recovered from the top of the peat, although the main phases of occupation appear to be later medieval and post-medieval. These phases produced pits, postholes and ditches, as well as two wells, which were all cut into the upper layers of peat. The features produced medieval and post-medieval pottery and CBM, animal bone, as well as three pieces of wood, belonging to a fence line and a more significant timber structure. The environmental samples and column sample indicated that the site was a wet fenland area (with a pollen residue indicating an Iron Age/Roman formation date). This eventually dried out in the 11th/12th century onwards and was then used for arable farming, with evidence for nearby domestic activity provided by very small charcoal fragments recorded throughout the environmental record. Both types of sampling indicated that the soil profile did not form as a continuous peat sequence, but was also made up of silty-sandy mud layers across the site. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous Yes, Future No Associated Identifiers: HER event no. LKH 344 Sitecode LKH 344 Contracting Unit No. 2013/002 Planning Application No. F20110265FUL NMR No. 1576173 Project Type: Recording project Investigation Type: '''''Full excavation''''' Reason for Investigation: National Planning Policy Framework - NPPF Current Land use: Other 3 - Built over Monument Type(s)/Period(s): WELLS Post Medieval , POSTHOLES Post Medieval , POSTHOLES Medieval , POSTHOLES Uncertain, PITS Medieval , DITCH Medieval , PITS Uncertain, DITCH Post Medieval Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): ANIMAL REMAINS Roman, ANIMAL REMAINS Post Medieval , ANIMAL REMAINS Medieval , BRICK Post Medieval , BRICK Medieval , CERAMICS Post Medieval , CERAMICS Medieval , LITHIC IMPLEMENTS Neolithic, CERAMICS Roman PROJECT LOCATION Area 273.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TL711831 Point Height 3.00 - 4.00 metres PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: Dr Jess Tipper Director/Manager: John Craven Supervisor: Rob Brooks DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: LKH 344 Contents: 'Animal Bones', 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Glass', 'Industrial', 'Metal', 'Stratigraphic', 'Survey', 'Wood', 'Worked stone/lithics', 'other' Media: 'Database', 'GIS', 'Images raster / digital photography', 'Spreadsheets', 'Survey', 'Text' PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: LKH 344 Contents: 'Animal Bones', 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Glass', 'Industrial', 'Metal', 'Wood', 'Worked stone/lithics', 'other' Media: 'Context sheet', 'Correspondence', 'Plan', 'Report', 'Section', 'Survey ' PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: Suffolk County SMR ID: J/115/5 Contents: 'Ceramics', 'Environmental', 'Glass', 'Industrial', 'Wood', 'Worked stone/lithics', 'Animal Bones' BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: Half Moon Pub, Lakenheath, LKH 344, Post-Excavation Assessment Report Author(s)/Editor(s): Brooks, R. Other Bibliographic Details: SCCAS Report no. 2013/002 Date: 2013 Issuer/Publisher: SCCAS Place of Issue or Publication: Bury St Edmunds Description: A4, comb bound, white card covers, in colour, with nine appendices. Also available as a pdf.