Element record MCC585 - Late Iron Age occupation site L4, Sheepen, Colchester

Summary

Late Iron Age occupation area at Sheepen, recorded during the 1930s excavations.

Location

Grid reference TL 98707 25515 (point)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Full Description

An occupation area site L4: 'its seems certain that there was period 1 occupation here, but the uneven loam surface and the absence of structural features and of any true-occupation layer in or upon it show that whatever there was had been destroyed'.<1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Monograph: Hawkes, C.F.C. and Hull, M.R.. 1947. Camulodunum: First Report on the Excavations at Colchester 1930-1939. p.124.

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Record last edited

Oct 17 2016 9:12AM

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