Homersfield, Flixton Quarry Extension (South Elmham St. Mary) Suffolk: Post-Excavation Assessment Volume I, Report and Updated Project Design

Machine strip followed by hand dug excavation of all visible features, resulting in context recording, section and plan drawing, photography plus soil sampling of selected features Excavations were carried out by Cotswold Archaeology, Suffolk Office (formerly Suffolk Archaeology) for Breedon Group (formerly Cemex UK), responsible for aggregate extraction at Flixton quarry. These excavations at Homersfield were an extension to Flixton quarry and represents part of the detailed archaeological study of the wider area of the quarry. The Homersfield site was a large area of c.6.75ha with significant finds, features and deposits belonging to the following periods: Late Upper Palaeolithic (flint scatter), Early Neolithic (pits), Beaker (structure, hearth, pit alignment, burial), Late Bronze to Iron Age (cremations, pits, heat-altered flint spread), Roman (kiln, cemetery, metalworking, enclosure), medieval (post-built structures, enclosures) and undated features (cremations, inhumations, post-hole structure).