Between January and March 2011 five targeted open area excavations were carried out by Oxford Archaeology East in advance of the construction of a water pipeline by Essex and Suffolk Water.<1> Three separate trenches (A to C, north to south) were machined, 285m in total, removing a dark brownish grey sandy clay topsoil, measuring 0.15m thick. A central (4m-wide) easement was stripped, of a mid grey silty sand subsoil, to a depth of 0.28m – 0.35m. The natural geology comprised yellow sands and gravels. A discrete pit 212 was observed in the north of Trench A; this contained struck flint dating to the Early Bronze Age and late Bronze Age pottery. Twenty metres to the south an east to west ditch 232 was investigated , which contained Late Bronze Age pottery. The fills sequence suggests that the ditch may have been open for sometime before this date. There were a number of pits, postholes and ditches dated to the medieval period, and also a number of modern features. There were a number of undated features (ditches and pits) on this site, including a ring-ditch in Trench B, which had an internal diameter of 9m. The ring-ditch comprised of two curvilinear ditches; with a possible entranceway to the north-west, measuring 1m wide.