The cemetery contains fifty burials and a number of high-status graves including "the most complicated Anglo-Saxon bed ever found.
[5][6] The bed burial was one of two graves at the cemetery which were found within wooden-lined chambers.
The second chamber contained a male skeleton with grave goods including a seax, a spear, a shield, an iron-bound wooden bucket, a copper alloy bowl and a drinking horn.
[7] The site was uncovered by Suffolk County Council's Archaeology Service in 1999 during exploratory excavations prior to gravel extraction by the quarry operators.
[1] Evidence of Iron Age and Roman activity had previously been identified in the area.