Between 20th September to 12th October 2017, and 15th-17th November 2017, Archaeological Solutions Ltd (AS) carried out an archaeological excavation at Site 39, to the north of Kirton, Suffolk . The excavation encountered an assemblage of possible early Neolithic pottery and struck flint in a group of intercutting 'pits' - possibly a tree hollow - in the centre of the site. Adjacent to this was a pit containing late Bronze Age/early Iron Age material. The co-occurrence of pit-like features purportedly of significantly different prehistoric dates (early Neolithic, early Bronze Age, and late Bronze Age/early Iron Age) is a phenomenon recorded at several other EA1 sites (e.g. 30, 36). If the classification of this material is correct, the interpretative implications of such landscape foci across millennia need to be considered. At Site 39, small quantities of possibly early Bronze Age pottery were found in to two widely separated pit/ditch terminus features at the north and south of the excavation. The northern feature was adjacent to two, artefact-free, pits similar in size and the character of their fills, which have also been assigned to the early Bronze Age.
Monahan et al. (Tue,) studied this question.