Site Event/Activity record ECC4148 - Test pit evaluation at St Mary's Church, Wivenhoe, 2020
Location
Location | St Mary's Church, High Street, Wivenhoe, C07 9BD |
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Grid reference | Centred TM 0389 2151 (8m by 4m) |
Map sheet | TM02SW |
County | ESSEX |
Civil Parish | WIVENHOE, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd
Date
May 2020
Description
Two evaluation test pits (TP3 & TP4), each 2m x 2m in area, were excavated by Colchester Archaeological Trust in May 2020 in advance of the construction of a new extension. The test pits revealed ten inhumation burials (all left in situ) and a quantity of disarticulated bone. The in situ burials were encountered between 0.75m and 1.17m in depth below current ground level (they were at a slightly lower level in TP3). The burials with datable material provided a date range from the late 17th to the 19th century for these features, although one had disturbed an earlier burial. A 19th-century wall foundation F1 was defined in TP3, probably the remains of a funerary monument.<1>
A significant quantity of iron coffin furniture was recovered from L3 (post medieval buried soil or grave fill) in TP3 and TP4, along with a single coffin handle from L1 in TP4, and all of these items likely came from truncated late 17th- to 19th-century burials. Additional finds included two small copper alloy upholstery studs (also from a coffin), a copper-alloy dress pin and a fragment of bone handle.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SCC74370 Evaluation Report: Hicks, Elliot. 2020. Archaeological monitoring and test-pit evaluation at St Mary's Church, High Street, Wivenhoe, Essex, CO7 9BD. CAT Report 1551.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- MCC10041 Churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Wivenhoe (Monument)
Record last edited
Jun 4 2020 8:59AM