Current SIAH news

The Historic Towns Trust has published jointly with the SIAH a new historical map of Ipswich. More information and purchasing details are at https://www.historictownstrust.uk/post/ipswich-a-new-map-of-england-s-earliest-town .

The SIAH AGM 2025 papers can be downloaded here:

SIAH_2025-03-22__Accounts_signed_for_the_year_ended_31.12.2024.pdf

SIAH_Officers_Reports_AGM_2025.pdf

Two of our most popular publications, David Dymond's The business of the Suffolk parish (2018), and Rosemary Hoppitt's Deer parks of Suffolk (2020) are out of print, and we are pleased to be able to make available these pdf versions for free download:

Business of the Suffolk parish (39Mb)

Deer parks of Suffolk: removed while a copyright issue is investigated.

Volume 45, part 4 (2024) of the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History is now out. The contents are as follows, and full abstracts of the articles are available here.

Early Neolithic activity, a Beaker burial and a prehistoric funerary enclosure at Woolpit by Tom Woolhouse

Late Bronze Age settlement and salt production on the Stour estuary: excavations at Stutton Close, Stutton by Matt Brudenell, Lawrence Billington and Nicholas Cox

The Iron Age origins of Sudbury: did prehistoric defences influence the layout and development of Late Anglo-Saxon settlement seen at the Gainsborough’s House Museum excavations?, by Jezz Meredith

Medieval and post-medieval archaeology at Manor Farm, Bawdsey by Andrew A.S. Newton, Lindsay Lloyd-Smith and Liam Podbury

The Ipswich ancestors of Geoffrey Chaucer by Keith Briggs

Hiding in plain sight: the site of the medieval market butchery at Hadleigh by Sue Andrews