Site Event/Activity record ESF22918 - Evaluation at 'Denbet', Mill Road, Hengrave, Suffolk.

PROJECT DETAILS Norvic Archaeology was commissioned by Jon Birrell to undertake an evaluation by trial trench at 'Denbet', Mill Road, Hengrave, Suffolk. A replacement dwelling has been proposed with a new house footprint which measures c.255m2, within an overall footprint measuring c.0.1ha (Planning Ref:DC/13/0532/FUL). The site is situated in the immediate vicinity of the Fornham Cursus (FAS 004), parts of which are a Scheduled Monument (SF 114). The cursus, formerly ditches and banks that are now visible as cropmarks, stretches for over a mile between Fornham and Hengrave. It would have been a significant Neolithic landscape feature and is interpreted as a processional way dating to 3500 - 3000BC. The archaeological evaluation was undertaken in accordance with a brief issued by the Conservation Team of the Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service on behalf of St Edmundsbury Borough Council (Ref: Rachael Monk 08/11/3013/SCCAS). Two features were revealed at the south-eastern end of the evaluation trench. They comprised of a shallow V-shaped ditch of possible prehistoric date and a post-pit, which it partly truncated. The post-pit contained a post-setting for an upright timber post of c.0.3m diameter. A freshly preserved assemblage of worked flint was collected from the backfill against the former post. These flints include several bladelets along with a blade core fragment consistent with a Mesolithic tradition of microlith production. Project status: Complete Yes, Validated Yes Previous/Future Work: Previous No, Future Yes Associated Identifiers: HER event no. HNV 034 Contracting Unit No. NVC/2013/GE183 Planning Application No. DC/13/0532/FUL NMR No. 1591697 Project Type: Field evaluation Development Type: Rural residential Methods and Techniques: '''Sample Trenches''' Position in the Planning Process: After full determination (eg. As a condition) Reason for Investigation: Direction from Local Planning Authority - PPG16 Site status: None Current Land use: Residential 1 - General Residential Monument Type(s)/Period(s): DITCH Late Prehistoric, POSTHOLE Late Mesolithic Artefact Type(s)/Period(s): FLINT Late Mesolithic , COPPER ALLOY OBJECT Post Medieval , BURNT FLINT Palaeolithic PROJECT LOCATION Area 255.00 Square metres Grid Reference: TL82776872 Point PROJECT CREATOR(S) Brief originator: Local Authority Archaeologist and/or Planning Authority/advisory body Design originator: Norvic Archaeology Director/Manager: Giles Emery Supervisor: Giles Emery DIGITAL ARCHIVE Recipient: SCCAS Contents: 'Survey' Media: 'Images raster / digital photography', 'Text' PAPER ARCHIVE Recipient: SCCAS Contents: 'Survey' Media: 'Context sheet', 'Photograph', 'Plan', 'Report' PHYSICAL ARCHIVE Recipient: SCCAS Contents: 'Metal', 'Worked stone/lithics' BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Type: Grey literature (unpublished document/manuscript) Title: An Archaeological Evaluation at 'Denbet', Mill Road, Hengrave, Suffolk. Author(s)/Editor(s): Emery, G. Other Bibliographic Details: Norvic Archaeology Report No. 43 Date: 2014 Issuer/Publisher: Norvic Archaeology Place of Issue or Publication: Norwich Description: Spiral Bound