Cornhill dig postponed

Published22nd August 2017

Archaeological investigation work on Ipswich's Cornhill has been postponed to allow a town centre procession and festival to take place early next month.

Ipswich Borough Council had hoped to begin exploratory digging this week as part of the Cornhill transformation project but will now commence work in two weeks time.

A Council spokesman explained: “We are taking this dig extremely seriously and if we had discovered something of note we could not guarantee to have everything back in place safely for this community event in early September. As a result, we will start the dig after that as there is no impact on the timing of the Cornhill project."

All the Cornhill shops, restaurants, businesses and market will be open as normal during the archaeological investigations. There might be some changes to the layout of the market but all the usual stalls will be trading.

The Cornhill regeneration project will begin in January 2018.

 

Issued by the IBC press office, tel: 01473 432035