Monument record IPS 280 - Ex Firmin's Site, Handford Road, Ipswich, (IAS 9612).

1997: Roman features and finds from evaluation, (S1).

2002: Monitoring of soakaways identified an undated pit and five sherds of Roman pottery, (S2).

2004: Excavation of half of the development area revealing a mixture of Roman and Early Saxon material and features, together with a large amount of Medieval and Post Medieval finds. A series of features from Late Iron Age to Late Roman included a trackway, slots/gullies/ditches/field/enclosure boundaries, a well (probably Saxon), pits, post holes, a post-holed enclosure, and a pottery kiln.

Neolithic-Iron Age:
Neolithic artefact scatter consisting of worked flints, burnt flints and pottery sherds, a single sherd of Bronze Age pottery and two sherds of Iron Age pottery. No discrete features from any of these periods were located; all finds were residual in later features.

Saxon
uncovered ten Saxon structures, an oven, nineteen pits, six post holes and a large quantity of pottery and other small finds; the extent and nature of these finds and features are indicative of an area of Saxon settlement

Medieval-Post Medieval
uncovered two medieval ditches, large quantities of medieval pottery and various other small finds from this period as well as nine pits, twelve ditches and a structure along with numerous small finds dating from the post-medieval period. (S3).

See also preliminary report, (S4).