A small excavation in 1975-76 by Colchester Archaeological Committee of a possible domestic timber structure within an irregular ring ditch, dated to the Late Bronze Age. These were defined as cropmarks in 1974 and they are within a much larger area of cropmarks. In addition, a small assemblage of early Anglo-Saxon material suggested occupation in the immediate vicinity.

Neolithic flint & Roman pottery, 2 Oaks Drive

Possible Roman cremation and inhumation burial, recorded in 2006.

Fieldwalking carried out while planting up a new wood under the Woodland Grant Scheme.

A number of medieval and late medieval ditches, pits (clay extraction pits?) and post-holes were defined (possibly part of a structure?) in advance of the construction of a water pipeline in 2011.

Trial-trenched evaluation and subsequent excavation (following geophysical survey) defined Middle Iron Age occupation and Roman ditches (possibly defining an enclosure and/or field boundaries) at Fiveways Fruit Farm, Dyer's Road, Stanway.

Possible Bronze Age ditch, recorded by evaluation (Trench 4) in 2004.

A Fieldwalking survey of farmland to the East of Birch airfield revealed finds of predominantly Roman date, including masonry.

A number of Late Iron Age and Roman features with traces of earlier prehistoric activity.

Bronze Age/Iron Age flint, Middle Iron Age Pottery Sherd, St Mary's Hospital, recorded by evaluation (Trench 10) in 1997.