Site Event/Activity record ECC4198 - Excavation at Hammonds, Land North of Elmstead Road/East of Swan Close, Colchester, 2018

Location

Location Hammonds, Land North of Elmstead Road/East of Swan Close, Colchester, CO4 3BL
Grid reference Centred TM 0225 2442 (66m by 39m)
Map sheet TM02SW
County ESSEX
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd

Date

May 2018

Map

Description

A strip, map and sample excavation was undertaken in May 2018 in advance of residential development across an area c.0.14ha. in size.<1> Several ditches, aligned NNW/SSE and ENE/WSW, were defined, including a possible track/droveway. At least one large quarry pit and a number of pits, of varying sizes, were defined. The finds assemblage comprised pottery (120 sherds weighing c.16kg) dating between the 11th century to late 15th/early 16th century, belt buckle, knife blade, roof tile (29 fragments), a piece of floor tile, two pieces of brick, a large piece of slag (c.700g), three fragments (85g) of lava quernstone, three oyster shells, burnt flint, a small assemblage of animal bone (six fragments) and rework charred plant remains. There was also a large quantity of fired clay (c.5.4kg), with particular concentrations in pits F22, F29 and F43 and smaller groups in pits F24 and F25, which may derive from an oven or hearth (deposited after disuse). There was also a small quantity of earlier residual material, comprising a single sherd of late prehistoric flint-tempered pottery and ten worked flints broadly dated to the later prehistoric period (Mesolithic-Bronze Age) and a single sherd of Roman pottery and a few pieces of ceramic building material. The excavation followed two phases of evaluation (ECC2862 and ECC4139).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- EXCAV REPORT: Pooley, Laura. 2018. Archaeological excavation at Hammonds, land north of Elmstead Road/east of Swan Close, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3BL. CAT Report 1296.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Medieval occupation features, north of Elmstead Road, Colchester (Element Group)

Record last edited

Jul 10 2018 3:29PM

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