Digital Data from a Geophysical Survey at Benarce and Kessingland,Suffolk, September - November 2023

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) was commissioned to undertake a magnetometer survey between 4th September and 1st November on c60ha of land around the Hundred River, between Benacre and Kessingland, Suffolk. The survey identified archaeological pits and ditches of uncertain date on the dry land either side of the floodplain. It also detected a partially intelligible complex of magnetic responses arising from the Holocene floodplain sediments. These included some notably regular elements which are suspected to be the product of peat extraction or other human activity. Further magnetic responses at the southern edge of the survey area related to the footings of a Second World War radar mast. The magnetometer survey was undertaken with a cart-mounted array of Bartington Grad-01-1000L fluxgate gradiometers.