Grey Literature

Suffolk Archaeology

Suffolk Archaeology CIC joined Cotswold Archaeology in April 2019 and continues to offer a full range of archaeological services. Established in 1989, Cotswold Archaeology is a Top Four supplier of professional archaeology and heritage services in the UK.

Grey Literature Report Library

The Cotswold Archaeology Suffolk office, in its former guises as the SCC Archaeological Service Field Team (SCCAS/FT and Suffolk Archaeology CIC, regularly produced unpublished site reports, known as ‘grey literature’, for all of its projects from the smallest monitoring to the largest excavation, and by March 2019 had an archive of over c.4000 reports. You can explore the report library by using the map above, which allows you to filter projects by type or by archaeological period. Select a project to see a brief site summary and an option to download the report.

The map shows SCCAS/FT projects from 1992 to 2014 and Suffolk Archaeology CIC projects from 2015 to 2019. A few historic reports, particularly those from 2018/2019, are still to be uploaded and will appear in due course. For the sake of clarity the map excludes many of the smaller monitoring and evaluation projects which had negative results, although sometimes a negative result can itself be of interest. On occasion there are also projects which may have been excluded or delayed for reasons of an archaeological or commercial nature.

The size and nature of these documents varies widely - for instance it is interesting to see how the nature of the reports developed since the early 1990's - but they typically consist of either assessment or archive reports which were produced primarily for the client to meet planning requirements, and for the relevant county Historic Environment Record. Some fieldwork reports, such as evaluations, monitorings and minor excavations serve as final project archives, and contain the full dataset, analysis and interpretation for a site. For larger projects the reports usually consist of an initial assessment of the site data with a research design for further analysis, and then a subsequent analysis/archive report which formed the basis for any publication.

A summary list of all reports displayed on the map can be downloaded here.

Suffolk Archaeology Reports

To view Cotswold Archaeology reports go to

Cotswold Archaeology Reports online