Parker Farm, Ham Street
TQ 9985 3325; (S. Holden); evaluation; 15 March - 18 March 2004; CgMs Consulting on behalf of George Wimpey; KPFH04
Sandy clay silt brickearth was recorded between 5.60m and 2.94m OD.
Nineteen trenches were excavated across the site. The natural brickearth was found to be overlain by a silty clay ploughsoil containing fragments of medieval and post-medieval pottery. In an isolated area to the south of the site, a deposit of re-deposited brickearth was recorded from which, a Mesolithic flint tranchet axe or adze was recovered. Fragments of roof tile dominated the assemblage of post-medieval finds from the ploughsoil, although some sherds of pottery dated broadly to the 18th and 19th centuries. A ditch running E-W across the site contained late 18th century to late 19th century material.
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