Element record MCC3100 - WWII Anti-tank ditch at Montgomery County Junior and Infant School, Baronswood Way, Colchester

Summary

A wide N-S aligned modern ditch F1, that it is almost certainly of military origin, was defined at the east of of Trench 4 of a trial-trenched evaluation in 2014.

Location

Grid reference Not recorded
Map sheet Not recorded
County ESSEX
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

The fill contained modern material including ash, modern brick and peg-tile fragments and barbed wire, although it would appear from the report that the feature was not sampled/sectioned.<1> The ditch was intepreted as a (possible) continuation of the WWII anti-tank ditch, forming part of the Colchester stop line, excavated on Garrison Area 10 (1km to the north-east), in 2003 (ECC2551).<1>

No further investigation took place.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Evaluation Report: Holloway, B. and Brooks, H.. 2014. Archaeological trial-trenching evaluation at Montgomery County Junior and Infant School, Baronswood Way, Colchester, Essex. CAT Report 776.
  • <2> EXCAV REPORT: Brooks, Howard (CAT) and Masefield, Robert (RPS Group). 2005. The Colchester Garrison PFI project, Colchester Essex: a report on the 2002 excavation of Areas 2, 6, 10. CAT Report 292.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jan 12 2017 8:51AM

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