Early Iron Age pits and a ditch were defined by trial-trenched evaluation on land west of Hall Road, Copford, in 2016.

Palaeolithic hand axe found at Reed Hall Camp (possibly in 1977).

Middle Bronze Age cemetery of two phases excavated by the Colchester Excavation Committee in advance of gravel quarrying in 1973 (the site used as a gravel pit for the A12). The first consisted of seven small round barrows and the second of a Deverel-Rimbury urnfield of 27 or cremations, mostly in urns. Twenty-five small pits, contemporary with the urnfield, were also found.

Worked flint recovered during the excavation of the Middle Bronze Age cemetery was examined by J Wymer who suggested the bulk to be probably Neolithic; they include scrapers, flakes, blades and pot boilers.

Some years prior to Crummy's excavation Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery was found at the old quarries south of the cemetery.

Palaeolithic hand axe.

Palaeolithic hand axe.

Base and fragments of an urn of course reddish brown ware, burnt black inside.

Ancient land surface on beach and foreshore visible in the form of a peaty bed containing bone fragments, tree stumps and branches, and pyritized wood.<1><2>

Some years prior to Crummy's excavation in 1973 `Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery were found at the old quarries south of the cemetery'.