Newmarket, 164-166 High Street

In order to characterise the archaeological potential of the site of a proposed new development on land between High Street and Fitzroy Street, Newmarket, Suffolk, the Heritage Network was commissioned by the owners to undertake an archaeological field evaluation. The site lies within the area of late medieval Newmarket. The town of Newmarket is defined in the County HER as an archaeological site of regional importance, with 21 HER entries located within a 500m radius of the site centre. These range in date from the palaeolithic to the post-medieval period. Despite the defined potential of the site, no archaeological features or deposits pre-dating the modern period were encountered in the course of the evaluation. On the basis of these results, the risk that the development might encounter archaeological remains of significance may be considered to be Low for all periods.