Burnt Mounds and the Bronze Age Exploitation of the Suffolk Claylands : Excavations at Fornham All Saints (Marham Park), Laxfield and Hepworth

This volume examines Beaker to Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age remains (c. 2400–350 BC) from three developer-funded excavations on the Suffolk claylands. Four burnt mounds are presented alongside a Beaker roundhouse, Bronze Age enclosures and later prehistoric land division boundaries.

This volume focuses on remains of the Beaker period to Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age (c. 2400–350 BC) from three multi-period developer-funded excavations on the clay uplands of Suffolk, within which four burnt mounds were investigated. The sites were excavated by Cotswold Archaeology (CA) and Suffolk Archaeology Community Interest Company (CIC) (now Cotswold Archaeology). At Marham Park (Fornham All Saints), overlooking the valley of the River Lark, features included a Beaker period burnt mound complex, a Beaker roundhouse, Beaker pits, an Early Bronze Age burnt mound complex, Middle Bronze Age field systems/enclosures and probable Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age land division boundaries. At Laxfield, above a tributary of the River Blyth, a burnt mound site of earlier Bronze Age date was located in the vicinity of subsequent Middle Bronze Age enclosures. At Hepworth, a fragmentary Beaker period/Early Bronze Age burnt mound site was recorded on higher land above tributaries of the River Dove.